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

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

Jeeves would say that the monogram is the personal brand of the vulgarian, and seek trauma-counseling if obliged to brush Bernie Madoff’s velveteen slippers.

From Slate • May 15, 2013

An English vulgarian is often hushed into silence by the presence of his social superior; an American vulgarian either recognises none such or tries to prove himself as good as you by being unnecessarily grob.

From The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin by Muirhead, James F. (James Fullarton)