All 12 Uses of
vulgar
in
The American
- He had never been a very conscious patriot, but it vexed him to see them treated as little better than a vulgar smell in his friend's nostrils, and he finally broke out and swore that they were the greatest country in the world, that they could put all Europe into their breeches' pockets, and that an American who spoke ill of them ought to be carried home in irons and compelled to live in Boston.†
Chpt 3
- She has not a single question—it's vulgar to ask questions—and yet she knows everything.†
Chpt 6 *
- M. de Bellegarde's face flushed a little, but he held his head higher, as if to repudiate this concession to vulgar perturbability.†
Chpt 12
- He liked doing things which involved his paying for people; the vulgar truth is that he enjoyed "treating" them.†
Chpt 17
- I see she is a vulgar little wretch, after all.†
Chpt 17
- "But she is a vulgar little wretch, remember, all the same," said Newman.†
Chpt 17
- My husband, you know, has principles, and the first on the list is that the Tuileries are dreadfully vulgar.†
Chpt 17
- If the Tuileries are vulgar, his principles are tiresome.†
Chpt 17
- Valentin listened and questioned, many of his questions making Newman laugh loud at the naivete of his ignorance of the vulgar processes of money-getting; smiling himself, too, half ironical and half curious.†
Chpt 17
- I don't know who he is; he is some vulgar wretch.†
Chpt 17
- He gazed at the gilded arabesques on the opposite wall, and then presently transferred his glance to Newman, as if he too were a large grotesque in a rather vulgar system of chamber-decoration.†
Chpt 24
- My dear boy, don't think me a vulgar brute for hinting at it, but you may depend upon it, all they wanted was your money.†
Chpt 25
Definition:
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(vulgar) of bad taste -- often crude or offensive
or:
unsophisticated (or common) -- especially of taste