Example Sentences

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Not wealth alone could purchase entrance within those sacred precincts unless, indeed, it were of sufficient magnitude and distributed with judicious and unvulgar generosity.

From The Man from Glengarry; a tale of the Ottawa by Connor, Ralph

He was, in fact, reformed by his great commercial success to this extent, that his vices had become of the most distinguished and unvulgar grade.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 by Various

It was an eminently unvulgar, and ought to have been a very sweet, home-coming.

From Tongues of Conscience by Hichens, Robert Smythe