vulgarization
Americannoun
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the process or result of making something vulgar or coarse.
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the process or result of popularizing difficult or highly technical content, making it more accessible to ordinary people.
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the process or result of translating something into the vernacular.
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Tubes’ exquisite vulgarization metaphor joke: it gets around FCC.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 29, 2022
A bland vulgarization that waters down the high and flattens out the low, middlebrow was an art of homogeneous mush.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2018
The British press was pretty snooty about what they saw as Byrd’s vulgarization and commercialization of Antarctica.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 13, 2018
Baseball, by contrast, was seen by most cricket lovers as a vulgarization of the true bat-and-ball game, cricket, that Rudyard Kipling said defined what it was to be properly English.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2010
Yet even in these early novels one feels over and over again the force of that phrase "popular vulgarization."
From Rosinante to the Road Again by Dos Passos, John
Whatever purists may have thought were its vulgarizations and deficiencies, Joseph Papp's Broadway presentation of The Pirates ofPenzance was all of a brassy piece.
From Time Magazine Archive
Acutely satirizing mediaspeak, the film hilariously exposes the vulgarizations and misleading distortions of that language.
From Time Magazine Archive
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