All 50 Uses of
vulgar
in
Of Human Bondage
- He made one feel that a first class was ever so slightly vulgar.†
Chpt 25-26
- He felt that he was unsuited to the vulgar bustle of the Bar, for he had discovered that it was not sufficient to put your name on a door to get briefs; and modern politics seemed to lack nobility.†
Chpt 25-26
- "Oh wise young man!' retorted Hayward, with a smile which made Philip blush, for he felt that in putting into plain words what the other had expressed in a paraphrase, he had been guilty of vulgarity.†
Chpt 27-28
- He had never been to a play in his life till then (poor touring companies sometimes came to the Assembly Rooms at Blackstable, but the Vicar, partly on account of his profession, partly because he thought it would be vulgar, never went to see them) and the passion of the stage seized him.†
Chpt 29-30
- Hayward surrounded his sordid and vulgar little adventures with a glow of poetry, and thought he touched hands with Pericles and Pheidias because to describe the object of his attentions he used the word hetaira instead of one of those, more blunt and apt, provided by the English language.†
Chpt 29-30
- His mind, vulgar in its effort at refinement, saw everything a little larger than life size, with the outlines blurred, in a golden mist of sentimentality.†
Chpt 29-30
- He thought the city of the ancient Romans a little vulgar, finding distinction only in the decadence of the Empire; but the Rome of the Popes appealed to his sympathy, and in his chosen words, quite exquisitely, there appeared a rococo beauty.†
Chpt 31-32
- She complained of the vulgarity of German life, and compared it bitterly with the brilliance of Paris, where she had spent a number of years.†
Chpt 31-32
- It is only when you return to the book with a sounder judgment that you find how gross their pleasures were, how vulgar their minds; and you feel the utter worthlessness, as artists and as human beings, of that gay procession.†
Chpt 33-34
- How could you be so cruel as to torment me by flirting with those vulgar girls.†
Chpt 35-36
- Under Hayward's influence he had persuaded himself that the festivities that attend this season were vulgar and barbaric, and he made up his mind that he would take no notice of the day; but when it came, the jollity of all around affected him strangely.†
Chpt 37-38
- The vulgar scenes with Thompson got on his nerves.†
Chpt 37-38
- It was a vulgar Paris that he showed Philip, but Philip saw it with eyes blinded with illusion.†
Chpt 37-38
- With Hayward, Philip had disdained humanity in the mass; he adopted the attitude of one who wraps himself in solitariness and watches with disgust the antics of the vulgar; but Clutton and Lawson talked of the multitude with enthusiasm.†
Chpt 41-42
- She had scarlet lips, and it was plain that the vivid colour of her cheeks was not due to the vulgarity of nature; she had blackened her eyelashes and eyebrows, and painted both eyelids a bold blue, which was continued to a triangle at the corner of the eyes.†
Chpt 41-42
- She had a flaunting vulgarity which amused and yet horrified.†
Chpt 45-46
- You are amused because I talk in this fashion and you know that I am poor and live in an attic with a vulgar trollop who deceives me with hair-dressers and garcons de cafe; I translate wretched books for the British public, and write articles upon contemptible pictures which deserve not even to be abused.†
Chpt 45-46
- You answer that she belongs to the criminal classes; not at all, she is merely devoid of vulgar prejudice.'†
Chpt 45-46
- The Levantine unfolded a table-cloth, red and yellow, vulgar, hideous, and grotesque.†
Chpt 45-46
- It looked like the work of a child of five, but a child would have had some naivete and might at least have made an attempt to put down what he saw; but here was the work of a vulgar mind chock full of recollections of vulgar pictures.†
Chpt 45-46
- It looked like the work of a child of five, but a child would have had some naivete and might at least have made an attempt to put down what he saw; but here was the work of a vulgar mind chock full of recollections of vulgar pictures.†
Chpt 45-46
- Philip, looking across the cemetery crowded on all sides with monuments, some poor and simple, others vulgar, pretentious, and ugly, shuddered.†
Chpt 49-50
- He thought the jokes vulgar and the melodies obvious; it seemed to him that they did these things much better in France; but Mildred enjoyed herself thoroughly; she laughed till her sides ached, looking at Philip now and then when something tickled her to exchange a glance of pleasure; and she applauded rapturously.†
Chpt 57-58
- Her phrases, so bald and few, constantly repeated, showed the emptiness of her mind; he recalled her vulgar little laugh at the jokes of the musical comedy; and he remembered the little finger carefully extended when she held her glass to her mouth; her manners like her conversation, were odiously genteel.†
Chpt 57-58
- She was not amusing or clever, her mind was common; she had a vulgar shrewdness which revolted him, she had no gentleness nor softness.†
Chpt 59-60
- Philip was repelled by her flat breast and narrow hips, and he hated the vulgar way in which she did her hair.†
Chpt 59-60
- He thought of Cronshaw bound to a vulgar slattern, and he shuddered with dismay .†
Chpt 61-62
- It cost twenty pounds, which was much more than he could afford, but it was showy and vulgar: he knew she would be aware exactly how much it cost; he got a melancholy satisfaction in choosing a gift which would give her pleasure and at the same time indicate for himself the contempt he had for her.†
Chpt 63-64
- It is sickening that vulgar, middle-class virtue should pay.'†
Chpt 65-66
- All I can do is to stand aside and let the vulgar throng hustle by in their pursuit of the good things.'†
Chpt 67-68
- "It's so vulgar.'†
Chpt 67-68
- He thought of Emil Miller, with his pasty, unhealthy look, his shifty blue eyes, and the vulgar smartness of his appearance; he always wore bright red knitted waistcoats.†
Chpt 69-70
- He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her.†
Chpt 69-70
- He made up his mind that he had better go in and see her for half an hour; but the necessity irritated him: he was angry with Norah, because she forced him to vulgar and degrading shifts.†
Chpt 69-70
- There was a vulgar sound in the ring of it that horrified Philip.†
Chpt 73-74
- His chief thought was that it was all so horribly vulgar.†
Chpt 73-74
- If I were a gentleman I shouldn't waste my time with a vulgar slut like you.†
Chpt 75-76
- He never read a book, he was blind to everything that was not frivolous and vulgar; he had never a thought that was fine: the word most common on his lips was smart; that was his highest praise for man or woman.†
Chpt 75-76
- He wondered if Mildred and Griffiths would go to a play that evening: they must kill the evening somehow; they were too stupid, both of them to content themselves with conversation: he got a fierce delight in reminding himself of the vulgarity of their minds which suited them so exactly to one anoth er.†
Chpt 77-78
- His reason told him that he would get over his unhappiness in time; if he tried with all his might he could forget her; and it would be grotesque to kill himself on account of a vulgar slut.†
Chpt 77-78
- They both had a vulgar facetiousness which tickled her simple sense of humour, and a certain coarseness of nature; but what took her perhaps was the blatant sexuality which was their most marked characteristic.†
Chpt 77-78
- She answered it with reams of passion, clumsy, for she had no gift of expression, ill-written, and vulgar; the letter bored him, and when it was followed next day by another, and the day after by a third, he began to think her love no longer flattering but alarming.†
Chpt 79-80
- Ragged children played in the road, and an old barrel-organ was grinding out a vulgar tune.†
Chpt 83-84
- And the lack of sympathy, wellmeaning but so tactless, which had taken the poet instead to the vulgar respectability of Kennington!†
Chpt 85-86
- It was a triumph of irony for that outcast poet to die amid the trappings of vulgar respectability;
Chpt 85-86 *vulgar = common (and so thought to be of unsophisticated)
- The idealist withdrew himself, because he could not suffer the jostling of the human crowd; he had not the strength to fight and so called the battle vulgar; he was vain, and since his fellows would not take him at his own estimate, consoled himself with despising his fellows.†
Chpt 87-88
- For Philip his type was Hayward, fair, languid, too fat now and rather bald, still cherishing the remains of his good looks and still delicately proposing to do exquisite things in the uncertain future; and at the back of this were whiskey and vulgar amours of the street.†
Chpt 87-88
- How can you be so vulgar?†
Chpt 95-96
- Vulgar?†
Chpt 95-96
- There was no wickedness in them, but only pettiness and vulgarity.†
Chpt 105-106
Definition:
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(vulgar) of bad taste -- often crude or offensive
or:
unsophisticated (or common) -- especially of taste