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vulgarity

[vuhl-gar-i-tee] / vʌlˈgær ɪ ti /




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It’s one of the oldest conceits ever, thinking that vulgarity makes you look tough.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

With Jude, of course, vulgarity is often the point, and maybe, as two hours becomes three, the excessiveness is part of the point too.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2025

His inauguration unfolded like a grotesque pageant, a theater of excess where power and cruelty met on a stage gilded in vulgarity.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2025

Now, Farrelly is banking on that same thirst for vulgarity and depraved humor for “Ricky Stanicky,” his latest buddy comedy starring Zac Efron and John Cena that hits Prime Video on Thursday.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 6, 2024

“In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish,” he declared, “the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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