vulgarized

Example Sentences

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Things are put a good deal more strongly in the film, although they have not vulgarized but only underscored James’ subtext.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2018

And, in a vulgarized form Rand would almost certainly reject, they have spread even further since her death in 1982.

From Salon • Oct. 6, 2014

In a cri de coeur written in retrospect, the Boston architect Rodolfo Machado lamented that the postmodernist critique of Modernism had been misunderstood and vulgarized in kitschy banalities built across the country.

From New York Times • Aug. 21, 2014

On it he croons in a talky flow about a manuscript — or is it a love letter? this song? his career? — that he fears will be vulgarized by commercial forces.

From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2011

Still further is it vulgarized by another confusion of thought.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" by Various