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I quite remind myself thus of the dealer resigned not to "realise," resigned to keeping the precious object locked up indefinitely rather than commit it, at no matter what price, to vulgar hands.†
Chpt Pref.

vulgar = of bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
It had become clear, at an early stage of their community, that they should never desire the same thing at the same moment, and this appearance had prompted her to rescue disagreement from the vulgar realm of accident.†
Chpt 3
She had never opened the bolted door nor removed the green paper (renewed by other hands) from its sidelights; she had never assured herself that the vulgar street lay beyond.†
Chpt 3
The first on the list was a conviction of the vulgarity of thinking too much of it.†
Chpt 6

vulgarity = bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
He had not supposed her to be capable of vulgar arts, but these last words struck him as a false note.†
Chpt 10

vulgar = of bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
"Well," said Isabel, smiling, "I'm afraid it's because she's rather vulgar that I like her."†
Chpt 10
They were simply a tribute to the fact, of which she was perfectly aware, that those he had just uttered would have excited surprise on the part of a vulgar world.†
Chpt 12
To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text, and to suppose that Miss Stackpole wished the gentleman invited to Gardencourt on her own account was the sign not so much of a vulgar as of an embarrassed mind.†
Chpt 13
Even from this venial act of vulgarity, however, Ralph was saved, and saved by a force that I can only speak of as inspiration.†
Chpt 13

vulgarity = bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
There are many amiable people in the world, and Madame Merle was far from being vulgarly good-natured and restlessly witty.†
Chpt 19

vulgarly = in a manner that shows bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
If for Isabel she had a fault it was that she was not natural; by which the girl meant, not that she was either affected or pretentious, since from these vulgar vices no woman could have been more exempt, but that her nature had been too much overlaid by custom and her angles too much rubbed away.†
Chpt 19

vulgar = of bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
He was dressed as a man dresses who takes little other trouble about it than to have no vulgar things.
Chpt 22 *

vulgar = of bad taste
He used to live in Rome; but of late years he has taken up his abode here; I remember hearing him say that Rome has grown vulgar.†
Chpt 23

vulgar = of bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
He has a great dread of vulgarity; that's his special line; he hasn't any other that I know of.†
Chpt 23

vulgarity = bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
He lives on his income, which I suspect of not being vulgarly large.†
Chpt 23

vulgarly = in a manner that shows bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
When I say she exaggerates I don't mean it in the vulgar sense—that she boasts, overstates, gives too fine an account of herself.†
Chpt 23

vulgar = of bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
His sensibility had governed him—possibly governed him too much; it had made him impatient of vulgar troubles and had led him to live by himself, in a sorted, sifted, arranged world, thinking about art and beauty and history.†
Chpt 24
Indeed it was almost a proof of standards and touchstones other than the vulgar: he must be so sure the vulgar would be first on the ground.†
Chpt 24
Indeed it was almost a proof of standards and touchstones other than the vulgar: he must be so sure the vulgar would be first on the ground.†
Chpt 24
For the present she abstained from provoking further revelations; to intimate that he had not told her everything would be more familiar and less considerate than she now desired to be—would in fact be uproariously vulgar.†
Chpt 24
He had kept, evidently in spite of shocks, every one of his merits—properties these partaking of the essence of great decent houses, as one might put it; resembling their innermost fixtures and ornaments, not subject to vulgar shifting and removable only by some whole break-up.†
Chpt 27

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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)

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