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vulgarity

[vuhl-gar-i-tee] / vʌlˈgær ɪ ti /




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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

"Knowing the vulgarity of the old world, today I try to avoid being listened to by the new world – so that I don't come across as detestable," he told the court.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2025

The real marvel, in this instance, being the avoidance of vulgarity.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 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

Later, returning home, he regaled Blanca with accounts of the vulgarity of these stale, out-of-date families, whose daughters were still chaperoned and whose gentlemen wore scapulars.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende




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