vulgar
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Vulgar language can be effective in a sharp response, but it dulls with overuse.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026
However, she did sneak onto the tracklist of the most recent release, Now 116, as a featured artist on Sam Smith's single Vulgar.
From BBC • Nov. 28, 2023
“Vulgar is beautiful, filthy and gorgeous / Vulgar will make you dance, don’t need a chorus / Say we’re ridiculous, we’ll just go harder / Mad and meticulous, Sam and Madonna.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2023
As described in Jack Lowery’s new book, “It Was Vulgar & It Was Beautiful,” wheat paste was something like a holy substance for activists, enabling the circulation of their righteously angry art.
From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2022
Vulgar they may have been, but that’s not to say they weren’t effective.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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