vulgarian
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of vulgarian
Example Sentences
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For years, publisher Graydon Carter referred to Trump as a "short-fingered vulgarian" in Spy magazine.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 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
He did not relish having to hobnob in this way with such a vulgarian as a grafting police captain.
From The Third Degree A Narrative of Metropolitan Life by Klein, Charles
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