For all the vulgar jokes we collectively enjoy, there's a cultural disconnect between sexual humor and actual eroticism.
He has driven it to vulgar lows, which has given the brand a hint of recklessness and danger.
Halperin has always treated earnestness and outrage as pathetic and vulgar.
Baseball manager Tony LaRussa tried to sue Twitter over a vulgar impostor account.
The air is filled with the most vulgar celebratory military type of songs.
She had no aptitude for aimlessness, and moreover thought it vulgar.
His love had been too big and serious a tragedy to end in a vulgar intrigue.
When they cannot get luxuries they fill themselves with vulgar puddings till they nearly burst.
I at least cannot be so vulgar as to do that, for I have not a shilling in the world.
I have said that Mr. Charrington's name was bandied about among the sensual and the vulgar—all over England—as a term of reproach.
late 14c., "common, ordinary," from Latin vulgaris "of or pertaining to the common people, common, vulgar," from vulgus "the common people, multitude, crowd, throng," from PIE root *wel- "to crowd, throng" (cf. Sanskrit vargah "division, group," Greek eilein "to press, throng," Middle Breton gwal'ch "abundance," Welsh gwala "sufficiency, enough"). Meaning "coarse, low, ill-bred" is first recorded 1640s, probably from earlier use (with reference to people) with meaning "belonging to the ordinary class" (1530).
