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vulgarity

[vuhl-gar-i-tee] / vʌlˈgær ɪ ti /




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A 2013 analysis of online newspaper forums found that 53% of anonymous comments contained attacks or vulgarity, compared with 29% from users who had to identify themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026

It is an astonishing, so to speak, over-the-top score, which you either love or abhor for its instrumental vulgarity.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2025

"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

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

To oppose vulgarity is inevitably to be vulgar.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin




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