vulgarian
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of 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
In Moore, Alexander and Karaszewski have found their latest unlikely folk hero, a winking vulgarian whose irrepressible drive for success more than makes up for his artistic deficiencies.
From Slate • Oct. 3, 2019
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
Imagine the daughters of my old friend Colonel Dinwiddie selling bibelots to any vulgarian who has the effrontery to purchase them!
From Why Joan? by Kelly, Eleanor Mercein
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