All 36 Uses of
vulgar
in
The Portrait of a Lady
- 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.
- 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 *
- He had not supposed her to be capable of vulgar arts, but these last words struck him as a false note.†
Chpt 10
- "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
- There are many amiable people in the world, and Madame Merle was far from being vulgarly good-natured and restlessly witty.†
Chpt 19
- 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
- He was dressed as a man dresses who takes little other trouble about it than to have no vulgar things.†
Chpt 22
- 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
- He has a great dread of vulgarity; that's his special line; he hasn't any other that I know of.†
Chpt 23
- He lives on his income, which I suspect of not being vulgarly large.†
Chpt 23
- 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
- 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
- For Osmond the place was ugly to distress; the false colours, the sham splendour were like vulgar, bragging, lying talk.†
Chpt 29
- What cared Isabel Archer for the vulgar judgements of obscure people? and did Madame Merle suppose that she was capable of doing a thing at all if it had to be sneakingly done?†
Chpt 30
- 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 35
- 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 42
- What did he think of her—that she was base, vulgar, ignoble?†
Chpt 42
- A revelation of vulgarity!†
Chpt 48
- 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 49
- 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
Definition:
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(vulgar) of bad taste -- often crude or offensive
or:
unsophisticated (or common) -- especially of taste