noun
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a coarse, crude, or obscene expression
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a word or phrase found only in the vulgar form of a language
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another word for vulgarity
Etymology
Origin of vulgarism
Example Sentences
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Well, the Games brought a large wave of vulgarism to Hyde Park for the men's triathlon on Tuesday and I was happy to be part of it.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 8, 2012
Le mot de Cambronne . . . was not a "defiant vulgarism as a reply to a British demand for surrender" .
From Time Magazine Archive
The Olympics had opened with the kind of easy pomp which the British are so good at, with none of the neo-pagan vulgarism which characterized the 1936 Berlin Olympiad.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Naff off," an upper-class vulgarism, is gaining popularity around the world largely through Anne's efforts.
From Time Magazine Archive
To this he consents; less with a view to the convenience of the last, than because his sensitive nature recoils from the vulgarism of the first.
From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Reid, Mayne
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