vulgarism

Example Sentences

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Well, the Games brought a large wave of vulgarism to Hyde Park for the men's triathlon on Tuesday and I was happy to be part of it.

From The Guardian • Aug. 8, 2012

He is the originator of the hideous vulgarism of using 'contact' as a verb�We contacted Mr. Smith.'

From Time Magazine Archive

The Olympics had opened with the kind of easy pomp which the British are so good at, with none of the neo-pagan vulgarism which characterized the 1936 Berlin Olympiad.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Naff off," an upper-class vulgarism, is gaining popularity around the world largely through Anne's efforts.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Century Dictionary speaks disrespectfully of it as a "United States vulgarism," but personally I consider it a first-class word.

From The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Robinson, Harry Perry