vulgarize
verb (used with object)
to make vulgar or coarse; lower; debase.
unvulgarize
-
a word derived from
vulgarize.
Example Sentences
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The quantity of thought which Hogarth crowds into every picture would almost unvulgarize every subject which he might choose....
From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by George Saintsbury
The quantity of thought which Hogarth crowds into every picture would alone unvulgarize every subject which he might choose.
From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Charles Lamb
