All 10 Uses of
vulgar
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 13 chapter version
- The Academy is too large and too vulgar.†
Chpt 1vulgar = of bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
- 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, which are the aims, the false ideals, of our age.†
Chpt 2
- Well, I found myself seated in a horrid little private box, with a vulgar drop-scene staring me in the face.†
Chpt 3
- Tonight, 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, not what I wanted to say.†
Chpt 5
- They affect us just as vulgarity affects us.†
Chpt 6vulgarity = bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
- Details are always vulgar.†
Chpt 6vulgar = of bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
- Surely you don't think it was a vulgar accident?†
Chpt 7
- There was something so crude and vulgar about everything of the kind.
Chpt 7 *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 9vulgar = of bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
- Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.†
Chpt 13vulgarity = bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
Definition:
of bad taste -- often crude or offensive
or:
unsophisticated (or common) -- especially of taste
or:
unsophisticated (or common) -- especially of taste