vulgarism

The idea of the swing vote is either a vulgarism or a myth — a story we tell ourselves to explain why a justice identified with an ideological bloc occasionally votes the other way.

Later, she said, she overheard a patron use a vulgarism to say that there were too many black students in the museum.

Trump huffily called Tlaib’s vulgarism “disgraceful” and “highly disrespectful to the United States of America.”

Mr. Goldberg had a third source, whom he described as “one friend of Trump,” as using a rather different vulgarism to describe Mr. Trump’s foreign policy.

As Trump spoke, someone in the crowd accused him of not caring about Puerto Rico, using a vulgarism to make the point.