All 9 Uses of
vulgar
in
The Age of Innocence
- "Oh, necessarily; Beaufort is a vulgar man," said Mrs. Archer.†
Chpt 5vulgar = of bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
- 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.†
Chpt 10
- Are you so much afraid, then, of being vulgar?†
Chpt 10 *
- Mr. van der Luyden looked about the room with what would have been self-satisfaction on features less purged of the vulgar passions.†
Chpt 10
- 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.†
Chpt 15vulgarest = most crude or offensive
- 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.†
Chpt 15vulgar = of bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
- 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.†
Chpt 17
- 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.†
Chpt 26
- 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.†
Chpt 33
Definition:
of bad taste -- often crude or offensive
or:
unsophisticated (or common) -- especially of taste
or:
unsophisticated (or common) -- especially of taste