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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With the approach of the silly season one’s thoughts turn naturally to the prospect of stealing into print and enjoying all the sweets of authorship without the reception of a cheque to vulgarise them.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 29, 1914 by Various
Such a proceeding, by depriving it of its venerable and appropriate surroundings, would vulgarise an entertainment which should have remained, within the precincts of Gray's Inn, archaic and unique.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, July 16, 1887 by Various
I will, therefore, say, that the inward beauty, whether fully represented or not by the outward form, implies, in the first place, the absence of all those qualities which tend to lower and vulgarise life.
From Social Rights And Duties Addresses to Ethical Societies Vol II by Leslie Stephen
To think thus of it and of Him is not to vulgarise the Christian conception of Heaven, but to give it a definiteness and force which it sorely lacks in popular thinking.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Alexander Maclaren
They were behind the times only in the sense of escaping, by seclusion, those modern tendencies which vulgarise.
From The Crown of Life by George Gissing
