vulgarian

Example Sentences

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For years, publisher Graydon Carter referred to Trump as a "short-fingered vulgarian" in Spy magazine.

From Salon • Nov. 2, 2024

The truth is that he needed the demands of popular storytelling, and even the meddling of vulgarian producers, to do his best work.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 4, 2019

It single-handedly announced that a dirtier, nastier and vastly more expensive era of Oscar campaigning had arrived, with Harvey Weinstein as its ringmaster, its screaming, bullying vulgarian poster child.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2017

Tom Wolfe lampooned him as a megalomaniacal vulgarian in a New York Times Op-Ed column.

From New York Times • May 29, 2013

I do most cordially hope that the beastly vulgarian who shaped it has gone, as my friend Mantalini would express it, 'to the demnition bow-wows.'

From Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches by Stuart, Ruth McEnery