vulgar
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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 • Feb. 17, 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
Madariaga had concluded Columbus was a Jew, said Morison, “by fashioning a significant pattern of hypothesis and innuendoes unsupported by anything so vulgar as fact.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026
Those who condemned the book as vulgar self-promotion validated his decision to describe things as they really are.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025
“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 "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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