Both Uses
vulgar
in
Of the Meaning of Progress
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- The father was a quiet, simple soul, calmly ignorant, with no touch of vulgarity.†
*vulgarity = bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
- They were never vulgar, never immoral, but rather rough and primitive, with an unconventionality that spent itself in loud guffaws, slaps on the back, and naps in the corner.†
vulgar = of bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
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)