vulgar
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The court “is not a place for vulgar barroom talk,” Judge M. Margaret McKeown clapped back in a concurrence joined by 25 fellow judges.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026
Olympic men’s hockey team marched in, it was vulgar and fabulous.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026
But now, online scammers were co-opting her iconic image for "vulgar and despicable attempts to exploit her legacy", the Brigitte Bardot Foundation said.
From BBC • Jan. 4, 2026
Without “cultural invention as a potential countervailing force,” the counter-counterculture filled the vacuum with the vulgar nihilism of digital norm evasion.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
“Had you ‘artists’ had a part in the decoration of the Sistine Chapel, it would have ended up looking like a particularly vulgar train terminal,” Ignatius snorted.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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