Vulgarity
[vʌl'gærɪtɪ] or [vʌl'ɡærəti]
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being vulgar; mean condition of life; the state of the lower classes of society.
(n.) Grossness or clownishness of manners of language; absence of refinement; coarseness.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Grossness, coarseness, rudeness, vileness, meanness, want of refinement.
Editor: Maynard
Unserious Contents or Definition
The conduct of others.
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Examples
- In fact I rather liked it, being neither more nor less than a mere woman; but I hate vulgarity or assurance in men. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- There is a positive vulgarity in carrying your business affairs about with you as you do. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It develops vulgarity. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The arts of Greece, imported long before, had been developed into magnificence that bordered on vulgarity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Dan, if you would let us talk for you, you would never expose your ignorant vulgarity. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The tinge of unpretentious, inoffensive vulgarity in Mrs. Vincy gave more effect to Rosamond's refinement, which was beyond what Lydgate had expected. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- How can she find any appellation for them, deep enough in familiar vulgarity? Jane Austen. Emma.
- He felt she was undignified, she put a sort of vulgarity over the esotericism which gave man his last distinction. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- True, answered I, and I shall be glad to learn that this man is either of those, for vulgarity will make me heart-whole again in an instant. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Isolation on a heath renders vulgarity well-nigh impossible. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It is not vulgarity in her, said Wellesley. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He loved her much too fondly to subject her to that horrid woman and her vulgarities, and the rough treatment of a soldier's wife. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Dreaming souls, weary of the vulgarities of our time, have desired to be transferred to the sublime Age of Pericles. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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