vulgarian

Example Sentences

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Trump has reportedly had a hang-up about his mitts since Greydon Carter's Spy magazine called him a "short-fingered vulgarian" three decades ago.

From Salon • Oct. 24, 2024

The truth is that he needed the demands of popular storytelling, and even the meddling of vulgarian producers, to do his best work.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 4, 2019

It single-handedly announced that a dirtier, nastier and vastly more expensive era of Oscar campaigning had arrived, with Harvey Weinstein as its ringmaster, its screaming, bullying vulgarian poster child.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2017

Jeeves would say that the monogram is the personal brand of the vulgarian, and seek trauma-counseling if obliged to brush Bernie Madoff’s velveteen slippers.

From Slate • May 15, 2013

For it is matter of wonder that some more colossal vulgarian has not stuck up a sign a mile long on the Palisades.

From The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages by Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor)