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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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
Money won't vulgarise Jean as it does so many people, but it may turn her into a very burdened, anxious pilgrim.
From Penny Plain by O. Douglas
An English eccentric or two is sure to have lived and died here all by himself; though doubtless, once on the spot, they did their best to popularise and vulgarise it.
From Alone by Norman Douglas
Absolutely valueless—utterly without the power of giving pleasure, they only satiate the eye, and vulgarise their own forms.
From The Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin
But these manifold household labours did not vulgarise Hilda's character.
From Greifenstein by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
