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vulgarity
[ vuhl-gar-i-tee ]
noun
- the state or quality of being vulgar:
the vulgarity of his remark.
Synonyms: grossness, crudeness, tastelessness, indelicacy
- something vulgar, as an act or expression.
vulgarity
/ vʌlˈɡærɪtɪ /
noun
- the condition of being vulgar; lack of good manners
- a vulgar action, phrase, etc
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Other Words From
- nonvul·gari·ty noun plural nonvulgarities
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Word History and Origins
Origin of vulgarity1
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Example Sentences
“FFV,” First Families of Virginia, is a lineage society whose members would likely disapprove of such vulgarity.
The editors who denounced Benglis in 1974 called the magazine image “an object of extreme vulgarity.”
I can see vulgarity and ugliness anywhere I want to look, and I can see it for free.
Explicitness and vulgarity are both different subsets of honesty, both very necessary.
Sometimes I wonder if I actually believe in vulgarity, as a concept.
Where do you see the line between explicitness and vulgarity?
Wilde deplored American commercialism and vulgarity, but he admired American simplicity and decency.
Smoking now is as common as eating and drinking, and to smoke amongst ladies is a vulgarity.
There is no surer mark of vulgarity than over dressing or gay dressing in the street.
So that the Provençal language, in spite of everything, keeps a certain patois vulgarity.
It is said that the late Ward McAllister shrank with peculiar distaste from the vulgarity of divorce.
Vulgarity, mother says, is pretending to be what you are not.
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