9 uses
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Definition
of bad taste — often crude or offensive
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unsophisticated (or common) — especially of taste
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unsophisticated (or common) — especially of taste
- Are you so much afraid, then, of being vulgar?Chapter 10 (29% in)
- "Oh, necessarily; Beaufort is a vulgar man," said Mrs. Archer.Chapter 5 (36% in)
- But that kind of thing is rather—vulgar, isn't it?" she suggested, relieved to have hit on a word that would assuredly extinguish the whole subject.Chapter 10 (28% in)
- Mr. van der Luyden looked about the room with what would have been self-satisfaction on features less purged of the vulgar passions.Chapter 10 (92% in)
- If she had done that, she ceased to be an object of interest, she threw in her lot with the vulgarest of dissemblers: a woman engaged in a love affair with Beaufort "classed" herself irretrievably.Chapter 15 (75% in)
- Beaufort was vulgar, he was uneducated, he was purse-proud; but the circumstances of his life, and a certain native shrewdness, made him better worth talking to than many men, morally and socially his betters, whose horizon was bounded by the Battery and the Central Park.Chapter 15 (77% in)
- Ah, my dear Mr. Archer, I thank my stars I'm nothing but a vulgar Spicer; but there's not one of my own children that takes after me but my little Ellen."Chapter 17 (17% in)
- In my youth," Miss Jackson rejoined, "it was considered vulgar to dress in the newest fashions; and Amy Sillerton has always told me that in Boston the rule was to put away one's Paris dresses for two years.Chapter 26 (19% in)
- If society chose to open its doors to vulgar women the harm was not great, though the gain was doubtful; but once it got in the way of tolerating men of obscure origin and tainted wealth the end was total disintegration—and at no distant date.Chapter 33 (69% in)
There are no more uses of "vulgar" in The Age of Innocence.
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