All 18 Uses
vulgar
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
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- The Academy is too large and too vulgar.†
Chpt 1vulgar = of bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
- We in our madness have separated the two, and have invented a realism that is vulgar, an ideality that is void.†
Chpt 1
- Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar.†
Chpt 2
- To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one's temperament into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume; there was a real joy in that—perhaps the most satisfying joy left to us in an age so limited and vulgar as our own, an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and grossly common in its aims.... He was a marvellous type, too, this lad, whom by so curious a chance he had met in Basil's studio; or could be fashioned into a marvellous type, at any rate.†
Chpt 3
- Well, I found myself seated in a horrid little private box, with a vulgar drop-scene staring me in the face.†
Chpt 4
- The vulgar directness of the question called for a direct answer.†
Chpt 5
- The moment was lost in vulgar details.†
Chpt 5
- To-night, for the first time, I became conscious that the Romeo was hideous, and old, and painted, that the moonlight in the orchard was false, that the scenery was vulgar, and that the words I had to speak were unreal, were not my words, were not what I wanted to say.†
Chpt 7
- They affect us just as vulgarity affects us.†
Chpt 8vulgarity = bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
- Details are always vulgar.†
Chpt 8vulgar = of bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
- Surely you don't think it was a vulgar accident?†
Chpt 9
- There was something so crude and vulgar about everything of the kind.
Chpt 9 *vulgar = of bad taste
- Of the asceticism that deadens the senses, as of the vulgar profligacy that dulls them, it was to know nothing.†
Chpt 11vulgar = of bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
- That is the reason I hate vulgar realism in literature.†
Chpt 17
- Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.†
Chpt 19vulgarity = bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
- All crime is vulgar, just as all vulgarity is crime.†
Chpt 19vulgar = of bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
- All crime is vulgar, just as all vulgarity is crime.†
Chpt 19vulgarity = bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
- I was going through the Park last Sunday, and close by the Marble Arch there stood a little crowd of shabby-looking people listening to some vulgar street-preacher.†
Chpt 19vulgar = of bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
Definitions:
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(1)
(vulgar) of bad taste -- often crude or offensive
or:
unsophisticated (or common) -- especially of taste - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)