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vulgar

[vuhl-ger] / ˈvʌl gər /




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Why do we recoil when a leader is vulgar and violent in his language and thinking?

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

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

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

Ahead of me, out the window, the sun sinks in a murderous, vulgar, unpaintable and glorious display of red and purple and orange; behind me the ordinary night rolls forward.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood




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