Vulgar - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈvʌlɡər|  American pronunciation of the word vulgar
Brit.  |ˈvʌlɡə|  British pronunciation of the word vulgar

adjective

- lacking refinement or cultivation or taste (syn: coarse, common, uncouth)
appealing to the vulgar taste for violence
the vulgar display of the newly rich
- of or associated with the great masses of people (syn: common, plebeian, unwashed)
a vulgar and objectionable person
- being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language (syn: common, vernacular)
the vulgar tongue of the masses
the technical and vulgar names for an animal species
- conspicuously and tastelessly indecent (syn: crude, earthy, gross)
a vulgar gesture
full of language so vulgar it should have been edited

Extra examples

He was a vulgar man.

She had a coarse, vulgar laugh.

I will not tolerate such vulgar language in my home.

They read the Gospels, they preached, and they prayed, in the vulgar tongue.

These plants had a different vulgar name in every province.

The Constants—ignorant, vulgar, and brash—had copious quantities of dumb luck.

...the old-line yachting gentry frowns on vulgar displays of wealth...

A vulgar fact often becomes mystified.

It wounded her delicate sensibilities to be addressed in such a vulgar manner.

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