All 15 Uses
vulgar
in
The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
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- For Osmond the place was ugly to distress; the false colours, the sham splendour were like vulgar, bragging, lying talk.†
Chpt 29vulgar = of bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
- What cared Isabel Archer for the vulgar judgments of obscure people?
Chpt 30 *vulgar = unsophisticated
- Contentment, on his part, took no vulgar form; excitement, in the most self-conscious of men, was a kind of ecstasy of self-control.†
Chpt 35vulgar = of bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
- For him, Mr. Bantling's fellow tourist was simply the most vulgar of women, and he had also pronounced her the most abandoned.†
Chpt 39
- They were produced by no vulgar means, but the motive was as vulgar as the art was great.†
Chpt 39
- They were produced by no vulgar means, but the motive was as vulgar as the art was great.†
Chpt 39
- Ralph Touchett, we know, had been of the opinion that she was prone to exaggeration, to forcing the note—was apt, in the vulgar phrase, to overdo it.†
Chpt 40
- That was very well; she would have gone with him even there a long distance; for he pointed out to her so much of the baseness and shabbiness of life, opened her eyes so wide to the stupidity, the depravity, the ignorance of mankind, that she had been properly impressed with the infinite vulgarity of things and of the virtue of keeping one's self unspotted by it.†
Chpt 42vulgarity = bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
- What did he think of her—that she was base, vulgar, ignoble?†
Chpt 42vulgar = of bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
- A revelation of vulgarity!†
Chpt 48vulgarity = bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
- There's a certain kind of vulgarity which I believe is really new; I don't think there ever was anything like it before.†
Chpt 48
- Indeed I don't find vulgarity, at all, before the present century.†
Chpt 48
- She found herself confronted in this manner with the conviction that the man in the world whom she had supposed to be the least sordid had married her, like a vulgar adventurer, for her money.†
Chpt 49vulgar = of bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
- It's always vulgar, at bottom.†
Chpt 49
- I only say that we're too infatuated with mere brain-power; that, after all, isn't a vulgar fault.†
Chpt 53
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)