vulgar
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6.1
- adjective
- /ˈvʌlɡər/
- The movie was filled with vulgar language that offended many viewers.
- coarse and vulgar
- vulgar materialism
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Watch on YouTubeI said, oh, I think it's very crass and vulgar and, you know, blah, blah, blah.
- I said, oh, I think it's very crass and vulgar and, you know, blah, blah, blah.
- I'm up here not because I'm vulgar or because I'm a provocateur.
- And even now you may think it vulgar of me to be sitting here seemingly doing good.
- No, but this is a sort of higher level materialism, you could say in that of vulgar or crude reductive materialism.
- They just point out that this you should all be miserable, because how could you vulgar people ever find meaning in Taco Tuesday and bad TV shows?
- And you know that some of them are vulgar and some of them have utter poor taste and some of them are creepy.
- Lewis paints Windrup as vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar, easily detected and in his ideas, almost idiotic.
- Well, that was really vulgar, Leilani Hannah.
- No, it's not as vulgar, but it's still a naked like.
- I was like, no dude, that's vulgar as hell.
- It's not like very, it's not very vulgar.
- I I pitched a really vulgar idea for without a recipe and for what was the food.
Examples
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And you know that some of them are vulgar and some of them have utter poor taste and some of them are creepy.
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Feelings ever more vulgar, behavior ever more polite, and thoughts ever more trivial.
Fiction book (1998) -
Not now, you vulgar person.
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And it continued along these lines and it gets significantly, significantly more vulgar, a lot more vulgar.
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And even now you may think it vulgar of me to be sitting here seemingly doing good.
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Two people starving, and all this vulgar show!
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We have not survived so that we might waste our years in vulgar vanities.
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Those comments were disgusting and vulgar and he would have supported and voted for Harris Walls ticket.
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Laughter has been objected to as vulgar because, in laughing, the mouth is open wide and the teeth are shown.
Academic text (2009) -
I understand that he's brash and he's vulgar and he's non presidential.
Synonyms
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2.3
Very unpleasant and making you feel sick or disgusted
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6.4
Containing rude sexual words
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4.1
A person or action that is very bad and dishonest
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5.0
Very bad and morally wrong
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4.7
Containing rude or offensive language
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3.9
Not polite, showing rude or harsh behavior
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5.1
Being rude and offensive, often about sex
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7.4
Sexually offensive or indecent in a way that shocks people
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7.9
Slightly shocking because it talks about sex in a rude or funny way
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8.6
Content about sex that is rude and shocking
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4.2
Rude in behaviour or style, showing little politeness and bad taste
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8.4
Not polite or well behaved in a rough way
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7.1
Saying or doing something rude that upsets people
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6.8
Not polished in style or manners
Antonyms
Compounds
- Jargon
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9.9
A crude, too simple way of explaining society that ignores many important facts
- Specialized
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9.9
The everyday speech of ordinary people in the Roman Empire that became Spanish, French and Italian
How Unrefined
Surface Forms
Etymology
Vulgar comes from the Latin vulgus, 'the common people', and because everyday things were often seen as simple, vulgar came to mean 'not refined' or in poor taste. That's why people call coarse manners or loud decorations vulgar today.