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vulgar
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Notes from the Underground
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- To live longer than forty years is bad manners, is vulgar, immoral.†
Chpt 1.1vulgar = of bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
- It is just his fantastic dreams, his vulgar folly that he will desire to retain, simply in order to prove to himself—as though that were so necessary—that men still are men and not the keys of a piano, which the laws of nature threaten to control so completely that soon one will be able to desire nothing but by the calendar.†
Chpt 1.8
- The coat in itself was a very good one, it kept me warm; but it was wadded and it had a raccoon collar which was the height of vulgarity.†
Chpt 2.1vulgarity = bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
- And I could hardly have resigned myself to the simple, vulgar, direct debauchery of a clerk and have endured all the filthiness of it.†
Chpt 2.2vulgar = of bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
- You will say that it is vulgar and contemptible to drag all this into public after all the tears and transports which I have myself confessed.†
Chpt 2.2
- And yet you are right--it really is vulgar and contemptible.
Chpt 2.2 *
- He was vulgar in the extreme, but at the same time he was a good-natured fellow, even in his swaggering.†
Chpt 2.3
- Of Simonov's two visitors, one was Ferfitchkin, a Russianised German—a little fellow with the face of a monkey, a blockhead who was always deriding everyone, a very bitter enemy of mine from our days in the lower forms—a vulgar, impudent, swaggering fellow, who affected a most sensitive feeling of personal honour, though, of course, he was a wretched little coward at heart.†
Chpt 2.3
- In fact, in the end it seemed vulgar to me myself, and I began putting out my tongue at myself.†
Chpt 2.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(vulgar) of bad taste -- often crude or offensive
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unsophisticated (or common) -- especially of taste - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)