vulgarize
verb (used with object)
to make vulgar or coarse; lower; debase.
vulgarise
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a variation of
vulgarize.
Example Sentences
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"That is not so painful; it does not vulgarise you so much as the cups they paint to-day and christen after me," said a Carl Theodor cup subdued in hue, yet gorgeous as a jewel.
From Famous Stories Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie
They vulgarise and degrade whatever is interesting or sacred to the mind, and suppose that they thus add to the dignity of their profession.
From Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners by William Hazlitt
Such a supposition would merely be to vulgarise and to stultify the divine and elusive mystery.
From Little Essays of Love and Virtue by Havelock Ellis
Incense is full of divine and beautiful suggestion; but the moment you begin to vulgarise it by talking, or even thinking, of its smell, all beauty and significance is destroyed.
From Japan A Record in Colour by Dorothy Menpes
Formerly we used to canonise our great men; nowadays we vulgarise them.
From Reviews by Oscar Wilde
