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
In Moore, Alexander and Karaszewski have found their latest unlikely folk hero, a winking vulgarian whose irrepressible drive for success more than makes up for his artistic deficiencies.
From Slate • Oct. 3, 2019
At the same time, Ahmari said, “Maybe it took a Queens vulgarian to clear some of the deadwood of the past away.”
From The New Yorker • Sep. 12, 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
The third engineer, vulgarian that he was, would have laughed a shrill, derisive cackle had he heard that speech.
From Command by McFee, William
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
