vulgarian
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For years, publisher Graydon Carter referred to Trump as a "short-fingered vulgarian" in Spy magazine.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 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
Tom Wolfe lampooned him as a megalomaniacal vulgarian in a New York Times Op-Ed column.
From New York Times ● May 29, 2013
As said in another chapter, a well-bred person always lives within the walls of his personal reserve, a vulgarian has no walls—or at least none that do not collapse at the slightest touch.
From Etiquette by Emily Post
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