vulgarian

Example Sentences

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Trump has reportedly had a hang-up about his mitts since Greydon Carter's Spy magazine called him a "short-fingered vulgarian" three decades ago.

From Salon • Oct. 24, 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

After a gangbuster opening weekend last February, “Deadpool” has earned $363 million domestically, and is now the world’s highest-grossing R-rated movie ever — not bad for a comic-book vulgarian who wasn’t exactly widely known.

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2017

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