vulgar
Example Sentences
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“But how does this relate to—you said this was something to do with the telephone call you received at work. The one with the vulgar word?”
From Literature
Making a person’s physical appearance the butt of a joke is vulgar apart from any medical condition responsible for said appearance.
From Salon
Samuel Johnson’s “Dictionary of the English Language,” published in 1755, applied the term fashionable to people above the “vulgar” and below “nobility,” a very subjective space.
Olympic men’s hockey team marched in, it was vulgar and fabulous.
When, instead, another Black Democrat from Chicago, Barack Obama, headed toward the Democratic nomination in 2008, Jackson’s frustration spilled into public with a vulgar criticism of Obama caught on microphone.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
