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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crassness |
| Synonyms: | coarseness, commonness, crudeness, discourtesy, dowdiness, impudence, indecency, obscenity, profanity, rudeness, unrefinement |
| Antonyms: | decency, decorum, restraint, tastefulness |
| Main Entry: | vulgarity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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affected, alabandical, awkward, barbaric, barbarous, bedizened, blackguard, boorish, brutish, clownish, coarse, countrified, doggerel, dowdy, extravagant, fescennine, gaudy, gingerbread, gothic, gross, heathenish, heavy, home, homespun, horrid, ill, in bad taste, incondite, indecorous, low, meretricious, monstrous, newfangled, obsolete, obtrusive, odd, outlandish, particular, provincial, raffish, ribald, rowdy, rudas, rude, rustic, savage, shabby, slovenly, snobbish, spurcidical, tawdry, tramontane, tricked out, unbeseeming, uncivil, unclassical, uncombed, uncourtly, uncouth, underbred, unfashionable, unfeminine, ungenteel, ungentlemanlike, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, unkempt, unladylike, unlicked, unpolished, unpresentable, unrefined, unseemly, untamed, vulgar
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| Concept: | [Bad taste.] Vulgarity. |
| Category: | 2. Discriminative Affections |
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-nouns
vulgarity, vulgarism; barbarism, Vandalism, Gothicism; mauvis gout, bad taste; gaucherie, awkwardness, want of tact; ill-breeding (discourtesy) [more]., courseness; indecorum, misbehavior., lowness, homeliness; low life, mauvais ton, rusticity; boorishness; brutality; rowdyism, blackguardism; ribaldry; slang (neology)., bad joke, mauvais plaisanterie., [Excess of ornament] gaudiness, tawdriness; false ornament; finery, frippery, trickery, tinsel, gewgaw, clinquant., rough diamond, tomboy, hoyden, cub, unlicked cub; clown (commonalty); Goth, Vandal, Boeotian; snob, cad, gent; parvenu; frump, dowdy; slattern.
-verbs
be vulgar; misbehave; takk shop, smell of the shop.
-adjectives
in bad taste vulgar, unrefined., coarse, indecorous, ribald, gross; unseemly, unbeseeming, unpresentable; contra bonos mores; ungraceful (ugly)., dowdy; slovenly (dirty); ungenteel, shabby genteel; low (plebeian); uncourtly; uncivil (discourteous); ill bred, ill mannered; underbred; ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike; unladylike, unfeminine; wild, wild as an unbacked colt., unkempt. uncombed, untamed, unlicked, unpolished, uncouth; plebeian; incondite; heavy, rude, awkward; homely, homespun, home bred; provincial, countrified, rustic; boorish, clownish; savage, brutish, blackguard, rowdy, snobbish; barbarous, barbaric; Gothic, unclassical, doggerel, heathenish, tramontane, outlandish; uncultivated; Bohemian.
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| Antonyms: | taste |
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