vulgarity
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In response, Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in a post on X: "We do not answer vulgarity with vulgarity, but with action: fearlessly and with great valour."
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
It’s one of the oldest conceits ever, thinking that vulgarity makes you look tough.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 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
His inauguration unfolded like a grotesque pageant, a theater of excess where power and cruelty met on a stage gilded in vulgarity.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2025
The woman wore a fashionable wrap, high shiny boots, and tapered pants; the man lounged in a rumpled shirt and stained trousers, giving an air of almost deliberate vulgarity.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
Mr. Trump’s vulgarities do cause distress among Republicans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
In her recent New York Times article about the "coarsening" of the religious right, Ruth Graham alluded to this, writing about the trend of evangelical leaders using "vulgarities."
From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2024
It is heartening, however, to see people of all races protesting the racist vulgarities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
Read the review: Considering the indignities Monroe endured during her life, “it is a relief that she didn’t have to suffer through the vulgarities of ‘Blonde,’” The Times’s Manohla Dargis writes.
From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2022
Then, too, there was all of that mascara and lipstick and other vulgarities which I would rather not catalogue.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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Journalism
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Mitt Romney's comments about Donald Trump
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A Clockwork Orange
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