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
Tom Wolfe lampooned him as a megalomaniacal vulgarian in a New York Times Op-Ed column.
From New York Times ● May 29, 2013
An English vulgarian is often hushed into silence by the presence of his social superior; an American vulgarian either recognises none such or tries to prove himself as good as you by being unnecessarily grob.
From The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin by Muirhead, James F. (James Fullarton)
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