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
Old Lady Ely used to say that Lord Fife was one of the few men who could with impunity quiz, as it were, the Queen� to use a vulgarism, get the best of her.
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
This is a condescension to a learned vulgarism, which so excellent a poet as Mr. Keats ought not to have made.
From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Miller, Barnette
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