vulgarian

Example Sentences

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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

In Moore, Alexander and Karaszewski have found their latest unlikely folk hero, a winking vulgarian whose irrepressible drive for success more than makes up for his artistic deficiencies.

From Slate • Oct. 3, 2019

At the same time, Ahmari said, “Maybe it took a Queens vulgarian to clear some of the deadwood of the past away.”

From The New Yorker • Sep. 12, 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

I have said that the objections of Irene's relations were justified, the fact being that Jean was not only a genius, but the most scatterbrained egoist and vulgarian.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 5th, 1914 by Various