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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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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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| Main Entry: | barbarity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crudity, savagery |
| Synonyms: | boorishness, brutality, crudeness, cruelty, inhumanity, ruthlessness, savageness, viciousness, vulgarity |
| Antonyms: | kindness |
| Main Entry: | corruption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | baseness |
| Synonyms: | atrocity, decadence, degeneration, degradation, depravity, evil, immorality, impurity, infamy, iniquity, looseness, lubricity, perversion, profligacy, sinfulness, turpitude, vice, viciousness, vulgarity, wickedness |
| Antonyms: | decency, goodness, honor, kindness, wholesomeness |
| Main Entry: | impropriety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bad taste, mistake |
| Synonyms: | barbarism, blunder, faux pas, gaffe, gaucherie, goof, immodesty, impudence, incongruity, incorrectness, indecency, indecorum, inelegance, rudeness, slip*, solecism, unseemliness, unsuitability, vulgarism, vulgarity |
| Antonyms: | correctness, propriety, suitability, tastefulness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | obscenity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indecency, immorality; vulgarism |
| Synonyms: | X-rating, abomination, affront, atrocity, bawdiness, blight, blueness, coarseness, curse, dirtiness, dirty name, dirty word, evil, filthiness, foulness, four-letter word, immodesty, impropriety, impurity, indecency, indelicacy, lewdness, licentiousness, lubricity, offense, outrage, porn, pornography, profanity, prurience, salacity, scatology, scurrility, sleaze, smut, smuttiness, suggestiveness, swearword, vileness, vulgarity, wrong |
| Antonyms: | cleanness, decency, innocence, morality, propriety, purity, uprightness |
| Main Entry: | slang |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | casual dialect |
| Synonyms: | argot, cant, colloquialism, informal speech, jargon, lingo, neologism, patois, patter, pidgin, shoptalk, slanguage street talk, vernacular, vulgarism, vulgarity |
| Antonyms: | standard |
| Main Entry: | dirty word |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indecent or vulgar word |
| Synonyms: | bad word, curse, cuss, cuss word, dirty name, expletive, foul invective, four-letter word, naughty word, oath, obscenity, profane oath, profanity, swear word, vulgarity |
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