All 11 Uses
vulgar
in
A Room With A View
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- You have not, of course, seen the disgraceful illustrations which the gutter Press—This man is a public nuisance; he knows that I am a resident perfectly well, and yet he goes on worrying me to buy his vulgar views.†
Chpt 5 *vulgar = of bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
- She was like a woman of Leonardo da Vinci's, whom we love not so much for herself as for the things that she will not tell us, The things are assuredly not of this life; no woman of Leonardo's could have anything so vulgar as a "story."†
Chpt 8
- It is so disgusting, the way an engagement is regarded as public property—a kind of waste place where every outsider may shoot his vulgar sentiment.†
Chpt 9
- People pretended he was vulgar, but he certainly wasn't that.†
Chpt 9
- An old lady, so very vulgar, and almost bedridden.†
Chpt 9
- If they're vulgar, they somehow keep it to themselves.†
Chpt 9
- How I do hope he'll get some vulgar tenant in that villa—some woman so really vulgar that he'll notice it.†
Chpt 9
- How I do hope he'll get some vulgar tenant in that villa—some woman so really vulgar that he'll notice it.†
Chpt 9
- Outside it were poverty and vulgarity for ever trying to enter, just as the London fog tries to enter the pine-woods pouring through the gaps in the northern hills.†
Chpt 10vulgarity = bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
- I do beg, no vulgar clinking in the plate with halfpennies; see that Minnie has a nice bright sixpence.†
Chpt 15vulgar = of bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
- She shrugged her shoulders, as if his vulgarity wearied her.†
Chpt 16vulgarity = 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)