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
At the same time, Ahmari said, “Maybe it took a Queens vulgarian to clear some of the deadwood of the past away.”
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 12, 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
Jeeves would say that the monogram is the personal brand of the vulgarian, and seek trauma-counseling if obliged to brush Bernie Madoff’s velveteen slippers.
From Slate ● May 15, 2013
"I'm plain vulgarian," he laughed to his wife one morning as he started to work.
From A Man's Hearth by Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) Ingram
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