vulgarity
Example Sentences
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It’s one of the oldest conceits ever, thinking that vulgarity makes you look tough.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026
With Jude, of course, vulgarity is often the point, and maybe, as two hours becomes three, the excessiveness is part of the point too.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2025
This is also a woman who chided her granddaughter that “vulgarity is no substitute for wit,” while proudly and without apology wielding her class-conscious vulgarity over her family and the servants.
From Salon • Oct. 1, 2024
Now, Farrelly is banking on that same thirst for vulgarity and depraved humor for “Ricky Stanicky,” his latest buddy comedy starring Zac Efron and John Cena that hits Prime Video on Thursday.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 6, 2024
I can only imagine the film’s latest horrors, its flaunting of vulgarity in the face of theology and geometry, taste and decency.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
Vocabulary lists containing vulgarity
Journalism
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Mitt Romney's comments about Donald Trump
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A Clockwork Orange
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