Example Sentences

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The Chargers came to Sin City and were criminally and vulgarly bad Thursday, their performance the most embarrassing since the franchise moved from San Diego.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2023

Zaslavsky’s takedown of “Lady Macbeth” is vulgarly imaginative, centering on Shostakovich’s desire to “tickle the perverted tastes of bourgeois audiences with its twitching, screeching, neurasthenic music.”

From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2022

“These men drive around in Maseratis and Ferraris. They are vulgarly rich. They have connections within the government. They have everyone by their side,” Egyptian filmmaker Shady Noor said.

From Fox News • Aug. 3, 2020

He was sometimes critical of the cuisine and once vulgarly complained about the flatulence produced by powdered orange juice.

From Washington Post • Jan. 6, 2018

The facts at hand presumably speak for themselves, but a trifle more vulgarly, I suspect, than facts even usually do.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger