How To Use Vulgar In A Sentence

  • At the bottom were the Théâtre de la Gaieté for pantomimes and harlequinades, the Porte-Saint-Martin Theatre for melodramas, and the Théâtre des Variétés for ‘little plays of the bawdy, vulgar or rustic genres'.
  • It must be entertaining to hear the peculiar phraseology and observe the humorous vulgarities of these _naiades_, if one could do so The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life
  • In fact, our lunar friend provides an instructive example of how a vulgar and dogmatic notion of ‘science’ can be quite compatible with the most arcane fantasies.
  • The expression pervading the countenance of the one was vulgarity; of the other, that which is rarely found, except in persons of high birth. Jack Sheppard A Romance
  • Otherwise nothing useful will be achieved and, instead of debate, we shall descend to the level of vulgar slanging matches.
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  • Like a kid, Mr. Mailer was fascinated by his own naughtiness -- his earliest critics castigated him for the vulgarity of his language, though his editors insisted that he use the word "fug" in "The Naked and the Dead. A Boy's Life
  • You probably haven't noticed, but my surname bears a passing resemblance to a certain vulgarity.
  • In an age of crassness, vulgarity and self-indulgence, she has continued to be an icon of what we once were and of what we might yet become again.
  • The museum has a Saudi sculpture of a falcon on a perch, of inestimable value and stunning vulgarity, made from gold, quartz, rubies, emeralds, sapphires and 1,210 diamonds.
  • Next-door Nepal offers a case study of vulgar tourism - Kathmandu is so choked with dark brown smog that the Everest is invisible on some days.
  • The most dull-witted, vulgar complaint about Gay Pride parades follows the form of ‘you don't see straight people running around with nipple clamps’ or ‘my wife doesn't dress up in latex and flaunt herself in the street ’, etc. and so forth.
  • The slow and deliberate steps of philosophers, here, if anywhere, are distinguished from the precipitate march of the vulgar, who, hurried on by the smallest similitude, are incapable of all discernment or consideration.
  • Our engineers were fooling about in the studio singing vulgar songs and making rude remarks in front of the microphone.
  • There is little to suggest any aesthetic vulgarity or antipathy to culture on their part.
  • Perrin says in the essay that he believes Williams en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Williams_ (UK_writer) is less famous than Tolkien or C.S. Lewis partly because he wrote fiction only for adults, not for adults and children: “All Hallows Eve will never be a TV special – or if it is, it will be so debased and vulgarized as to make most TV specials of great books seem works of astonishing fidelity.” 2008 October 23 « One-Minute Book Reviews
  • To have my name traduced in public; in inns, among the meanest vulgar! to have any little favours that my unguarded heart may have too lightly betrayed me to grant, boasted of there! nay, even to hear that you had been forced to fly from my love! History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
  • This last, I knew, was a very vulgar word; I had heard Rador use it in a moment of anger to one of the serving maids, and it meant, approximately, "kitchen girl," "scul-lion. The Moon Pool
  • In doing so, Blatherwick has made you aware of the strange beauty and vulgarity of otherwise unnoticeable, routine human impulses.
  • The DSUE was widely regarded as filling a lexicographical gap, because it treated four-letter words and sexual and scatological vulgarities that had previously been omitted by the OED and the general run of ‘family’ dictionaries.
  • Wilson managed to get his frippet to Lahore on a plane provided by Zia, who laughed at the vulgarity of his antics.
  • Acne vulgaris is a decorticate model with a multifactorial etiology including androgen stimulation of sebum production. Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
  • That a man should lay down his life for his friend seems strange to vulgar affections and such as confine themselves within that worldly principle, “Charity begins at home.” Religio Medici
  • -- The vulgar word humorsome comes nearest to the meaning.] -- And sings a sweet song, though it is somewhat of the longest. The Monastery
  • Not trying to demonize him or - as some have done - poeticize him, he gives us a common but not unduly vulgar man, with brightness and obtuseness intermingled.
  • The vulgar always knew what General danced with the lovely Miss A., and how they looked, and what they said to each other; how many jewels Miss A. wore, and the material her dress was made of; they knew who polkaed with the accomplished Miss B., and how like a duchess she bore herself; they had the exact name of the colonel who dashed along so like a knight with the graceful and much-admired Mrs. D., whose husband was abroad serving his country; what gallant captain of dragoons (captains of infantry were looked upon as not what they might be) promenaded so imperiously with the vivacious Miss E.; and what distinguished foreigner sat all night in the corner holding a suspicious and very improper conversation with Miss An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith
  • Specific transcription profiles of mitochondrial genes were associated with specific mitochondrial DNA haplotypes in a natural population of a gynodioecious species S. vulgaris. BioMed Central - Latest articles
  • Phaseolus vulgaris erythroagglutinin • ConA, concanavalin A • endo H, endoglycosidase H Journal of Biological Chemistry current issue
  • Sheffer -- who knew what makes business men laugh -- pinned his simple faith to three main subjects, convulsive of the diaphragmatic muscles, building up each series upon the inherent humor to be extracted from physical violence as represented in the perpetrations and punishments of Ruff and Reddy, marital infidelity as mirrored in the stratagems and errancies of an amorous ape with an aged and jealous spouse, and the sure-fire familiarity of aged minstrel jokes (mother-in-law, country constable, young married cookery, and the like) refurbished in pictorial serials through the agency of two uproarious and imbecilic vulgarians, Bonehead and Buttinsky. Success A Novel
  • Broadcaster John Humphrys recently attacked shows like Big Brother for their ‘mind-numbing, witless vulgarity.’
  • The sensitive plant is too vulgar an allusion; but if the truth of modern naturalists may be depended upon, there is a plant which, instead of receding timidly from the intrusive touch, angrily protrudes its venomous juices upon all who presume to meddle with it: – do not you think this plant would be your fittest emblem? Letters for Literary Ladies: To Which is Added, An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification
  • I now await all the nasty comments from the hitch, newmania, verity and jus'passin'thru and more vulgar than a vulcans vulva...and of course anonymous... Quote of the Day
  • The dialogue is as awash in vulgarity as, well, a middle school playground. I Have No Hugo Ideas, and I Must Vote!
  • Beneath his tissue-thin veneer of good manners,he was a very vulgar man.
  • The term mob is Australian English as the accepted collective noun for a group of Kangaroos, from the hoitytoity mobilus vulgaris. Boing Boing: July 9, 2006 - July 15, 2006 Archives
  • And this, too, I suppose she calls a frolic; or, in her own vulgar language, fun. Tales and Novels — Volume 03
  • The vulgarization of political science is intermingled with the forfeit of its civic education function.
  • As to the term philosopher's stone, he alleged that it was a mere figure, to deceive the vulgar. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 342, November 22, 1828
  • Orators are not improvising without adequate preparation; they are ‘winging it’ (this American vulgarism surely never arose till the 1990s?)
  • The missing apostrophe from area's you might put down to a typing error; the missing hyphens from well-maintained, 5th-floor, and ready-to-move-into you might ascribe to the pandemic mishandling of those simple punctuation marks; the misrelated clause at the beginning and the dubiously related clause at the end are not so easily shrugged off: they are the faults of pretension rather than ignorance, and the illiteracy of pretentiousness is the vulgarest and most reprehensible. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 2
  • It becomes the vehicle for corporate branding of the most vulgar sort and it encourages waste on an obscene scale.
  • Victorian critics derided its vulgarity. Times, Sunday Times
  • Later on the custom was abolished because vulgar people tittered and the dignity of the elephants or their mahouts was wounded.
  • I flicked my eyes to a random jock gyrating his hips in the most vulgar manner possible to the beat of the music.
  • The programme was relentlessly unflashy, balm in a media world that gets louder and more vulgar by the day.
  • In Brazil, though rich in luxuriant vegetable and animal life, there is no history – all is new and progressive, but vulgar and parvenu; whereas Syria, in her abomination of desolation, is the old land, and she teems with relics of departed glory. The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton
  • Lude, commemorated in the ingenious Mr. Gunn's Essay on the Caledonian Harp, and so proceed in my story with all the brevity that my natural style of composition, partaking of what scholars call the periphrastic and ambagitory, and the vulgar the circumbendibus, will permit me. The Waverley
  • Seldom have we witnessed a more shameless display of rude and vulgar behavior towards an invited guest.
  • Yvette Gilbert, the songstress of the vile, the recitationist of the vulgar, and Le Loie Fuller, the dancer of the serpentine, live off the fat of the land every day. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
  • Many contributors were Trinity graduates, parading classical learning and disdain for the vulgar.
  • Wherefore, hereditary succession in the early ages of monarchy could not take place as a matter of claim, but as something casual or complemental; but as few or no records were extant in those days, the traditionary history stuff'd with fables, it was very easy, after the lapse of a few generations, to trump up some superstitious tale conveniently timed, Mahomet-like, to cram hereditary right down the throats of the vulgar. Common Sense
  • The anti-intellectual vulgarity does contribute to dumbing down.
  • In neither case, of course, was art intended to be reduced to something vulgar or common - a mere commodity, for example, or propaganda.
  • For we offer, besides ourselves, a position that has not grown old under the weight of a gigantic, parasitic bureaucracy, a position untempered by the doctoral dissertations of a generation of Ph.D. s in social architecture, unattenuated by a thousand vulgar promises to a thousand different pressure groups, uncorroded by a cynical contempt for human freedom. Buckley Athwart History
  • I must weave a veil of dazzling falsehood to hide my grief from vulgar eyes, smoothe my brow, and paint my lips in deceitful smiles -- even in solitude I dare not think how lost I am, lest I become insane and rave. I.9
  • And we haue purposely omitted all nice or scholasticall curiosities not meete for your Maiesties contemplation in this our vulgare arte, and what we haue written of the auncient formes of Poemes, we haue taken from the best clerks writing in the same arte. The Arte of English Poesie
  • But the meaning of his Judaism is not a simple ‘pick and choose’ as the vulgar believe, but a Jewish self that cherished its particularity and its distinctiveness.
  • Serios plays the part of a buffoon, a vulgarian blessed with a minor telepathic power.
  • He was loud, vulgar and arrogant-quite simply the rudest man I've ever met!
  • To the more highly pitched self-consciousness this life had become a burden, and in the miseries of the present, one hoped for a future life in which the pain and vulgarity of the unreal life of earth would be completely laid aside ([Greek: Enkrateia] and [Greek: anastasis]). History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7)
  • M. Cuvier suspects that I may have mistaken for it the animal called by naturalists the dugong, and vulgarly the sea-cow, which will be hereafter mentioned; and it would indeed be a grievous error to mistake for a beast with four legs, a fish with two pectoral fins serving the purposes of feet; but, independently of the authority I have stated, the kuda ayer, or river-horse, is familiarly known to the natives, as is also the duyong (from which M.layan word the dugong of naturalists has been corrupted); and I have only to add that, in a register given by the Philosophical Society of Batavia in the first The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants
  • He was loud, vulgar and arrogant-quite simply the rudest man I've ever met!
  • Even in hydrostatics he soon leaves the narrow way of pure physics to wallow in the mire of stowage of cargo, metacentres and their uses, water flow, and its application to water supply and such like vulgarities.
  • Her pallor that morning refined the indubious coarseness of her face, and changed vulgarity into the attractive originality of a spirited character. London River
  • One would expect the relentless cacophony of vulgarities and the unrelenting evocation of disturbing mental images first to shock, then to have a numbing effect on the audience.
  • Political correctness has certainly not hindered my ability to be vulgar or offensive.
  • Certain words are vulgar and not acceptable in polite society.
  • The involvement of mucous membranes is much less common with bullous pemphigoid than in pemphigus vulgaris, with blisters that are less easily ruptured.
  • She found their laughter and noisy games coarse and rather vulgar.
  • It was perhaps inevitable that so successful an intellectual entrepreneur would be vulgarized.
  • A deal was made, and On the Buses was brought to the screen by Hammer in a film that, instead of attempting to broaden and strengthen its TV source, merely inflated and further vulgarized it.
  • He was suspended for one game by the NBA on Tuesday for yelling a sexual vulgarity at a female fan during a game.
  • In the process, his analysis has been vulgarised into the rhetoric of a war on terrorism.
  • However, they have gained a vast following with glossy films of E.M. Forster's low-key novels, in which they vulgarize the issues and overdecorate the sets. Faking Picasso
  • The most common forms of abuse were much less sophisticated and amounted to little more than vulgar name-calling.
  • I've no idea how much the clothes cost because there was nothing so vulgar as a price tag in evidence.
  • The Palin candidacy is a symptom and expression of a new vulgarization in American politics," wrote Wall Street Journal columnist, Peggy Noonan, the Wall Street Journal. Geoffrey Dunn: Rick Davis and McCain's Failed Campaign Strategy
  • For P. vulgaris, plants were pruned to leave the primary and second trifoliate leaves supporting a single pod arising from the axis of trifoliate leaf 3.
  • The director keeps the camera close to their faces, and the scenes are played out with smiles, winces, sneers, vulgarities, long pauses, shrugs, inane repetitions, dartings, and aversions of the eyes.
  • Other contenders in the 2009 Pikes Peak Regional Science Fair examined harmful radiation from kitchen appliances, the effects of global warming on plant life and something called bacteriostatic properties of Pinguicula vulgaris. Gazette.com :
  • In the history of genre-study or formalism, the Essay deserves a mention, particularly for its inclusiveness: prose, dialect, vulgarisms, and the low are all in.
  • These traits of spoken language belong to a vulgar household, filled with the clamour of a large family fond of coarse jokes and prone to sentimental effusions.
  • Fashion vulgarity experts say'Darling, are you really wearing a beaded frock? Times, Sunday Times
  • A few years ago while on a trip to colonial Williamsburg, seeds for broomcorn were purchased, sorghum vulgare. Brooms « Fairegarden
  • In an age of crassness, vulgarity and self-indulgence, she has continued to be an icon of what we once were and of what we might yet become again.
  • There is little to suggest any aesthetic vulgarity or antipathy to culture on their part.
  • He had emerged, married an uncongenial and rather vulgar Swiss girl, and obtained a professorship at Cooper's Hill.
  • Lude, commemorated in the ingenious Mr. Gunn's Essay on the Caledonian Harp, and so proceed in my story with all the brevity that my natural style of composition, partaking of what scholars call the periphrastic and ambagitory, and the vulgar the circumbendibus, will permit me. The Waverley
  • Last night, the Situation and company — all vulgar human muppets with no real skills and an ungodly orange glow — went right back to being harbingers of the apocalypse as they alternately got trashed, bitched about each other and freaked out over Angelina replacement Deena, a hard-partying "gremlin lookalike" per Ronnie's evaluation who just so happens to be besties with Snooki. Watercooler: More Trash Washed Up on the Jersey Shore
  • Banners, meanwhile, must be ‘tasteful, non-offensive, non-vulgar, non-political, non-racial, non-discriminatory, non-sexual’ and carry no advertising.
  • Therefore all the tricks of rhetoric were used: rhymes, puns, vulgarisms and homilies.
  • The public will goggle at the kitsch vulgarity of diamond-encrusted eggs and crystal flowers.
  • Here again is the rumbustious Silverstein sensibility, with its screwball humor, mixed-up whimsy, tenderheartedness and occasional dashes of vulgarity. When Life Depends On Scrabble
  • They're about the vulgar, grunting, brainless way in which these subjects are handled.
  • For that reason the name degrades him the more, and lowers him from an intellectual phenomenon to a physical attribute, which is vulgar. What Will He Do with It? — Complete
  • A term applied to art or artefacts characterized by vulgarity, sentimentality, and pretentious bad taste.
  • Secretio adeo a vulgari fanguinis circuitu haclenus differt, quod ia ifto quidem arteriola minima, cylindrica, in venam fibi aqualem, aut ampliorem continuetur, quaj fmguinem recipere apta fit, in humorum vero feparatione du - clus excrecorius, rubro vafculo arteriofo minor, tamquam ramus. ex eo vafculo prodeat. Elementa physiologiae corporis humani ..
  • The book batters vulgarity like a butcher with a shank.
  • The vulgarity is not _the_ vulgarity of the vulgar -- the inelegancy is not the spontaneous rudeness of the ill-bred -- any more than its doctrine of nature is the doctrine of the unlearned. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
  • Orégano (oregano) origanum vulgare: This variety of oregano is the most commonly found in Mexico, and is most often used dry. A Culinary Guide to Mexican Herbs: Las Hierbas de Cocina
  • Heckerling's most well-known films link female characters with humour that belongs to a tradition of vulgar or low comedy.
  • Vulgar constructionism thus distorts the possibilities for meaningful identity politics by conflating at least two separate but closely linked manifestations of power.
  • The glory of the samurai sword, vulgarised to the point of farce in Tarantino's Kill Bill, is treated with respect, even awe.
  • We all know the ABC would never give countenance to the perverted influence of base and vulgar advertising.
  • Most of their priestcraft was a vulgar imposition upon the ignorance and credulity of the common people. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03
  • ‘Cocktail,’ the paper stated, ‘is a stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters - it is vulgarly called a bittered sling and is supposed to be an excellent electioneering potion, inasmuch as it renders the heart stout and bold, at the same time that if fuddles the head.’
  • Simple self promotion is jarring, far too revealing and far too blunt, gauche, clumsy, and vulgar.
  • Le Bourgeois gentilhomme satirizes attempts at social climbing, poking fun both at the vulgar, pretentious middle-class and the vain, snobbish aristocracy. Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World
  • There goes 'the seld shown flamen, _puffing_ his way to _win a vulgar station_,' here is a 'veiled dame' who lets us see that 'war of white and damask in her nicely gawded cheeks,' a moment; -- look at that 'kitchen malkin,' peering over the wall there with 'her richest lockram' 'pinned on her reechy neck,' eyeing the hero as he passes; and look at this poor baby here, this Elizabethan baby, saved, conserved alive, crying himself The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
  • Besides, captiousness, sullenness, and pouting are most exceedingly illiberal and vulgar. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
  • The whale is vulgarly supposed to be a fish.
  • Peggy Noonan referred to Palin as a "vulgarization" of our politics. Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys..
  • But true adepts would never have been concerned with anything so vulgar as financial gain.
  • Bäumker) as strophically arranged sacred songs in the vulgar tongue, which, because of their ecclesiastical character, are suitable to be sung by the whole congregation, and have been either expressly approved for this purpose by ecclesiastical authority, or at least tacitly admitted. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
  • _O. vulgare_, wild marjoram) thyme > (This and origan were used to treat scabs: see 108.47: 3; thyme was also used to treat syphilis) 8 A filthy foul old woman I did view, The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
  • When Beck started talking about the rising number of junior high school students engaging in oral sex or began using the vulgar past participle for micturition as a synonym for "angry," the presence of a seven-year-old girl in the front row didn't seem to deter him. BatesLine: April 2005 Archives
  • Pletnev's new version does much to tame the score's incipient vulgarity without compromising its more grotesque elements.
  • Friend, seems strange to vulgar affections, and such as confine themselves within that Worldly principle, Charity begins at home. Religio Medici
  • Their pleasures gave but a pinchbeck joviality after all, were but a thin lacker spread over mercenary cares and heart-aching jealousies -- not the jealousies of passion, but the nipping vulgar vexation with which a shopkeeper trembles lest a customer should go to his rival over the way. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868)
  • Conclusion Clobetasol propionate Compound is an effective and safe drug in treatment of patients with psoriasis vulgaris.
  • I opened the collar of my shirt—it was a vulgar blue-and-white check such as ploughmen wear—and revealed a neck as brown as any tinker's. The Adventure of the Spectacled Roadman
  • His work, like the man himself, is ribald, often obscene, but never vulgar.
  • After their death attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonise them, to hallow their names while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarising it. Matthew Yglesias » King and Nonviolence
  • What strikes me about the events of the past week is the surreal farcical vulgarity of it all.
  • In his manner there was nothing of the supercilious apathy which characterizes the dandy introduced to some one whom he doubts if he can nod to from the bow-window at White's, -- none of such vulgar coxcombries had Lord Castleton; and yet a young gentleman more emphatically coxcomb it was impossible to see. The Caxtons — Volume 11
  • That a man should lay down his life for his Friend, seems strange to vulgar affections, and such as confine themselves within that Worldly principle, Charity begins at home. The Second Part
  • She is the virgin-harlot†witty, vulgar, cruel, as destructive in her whims as a coriolis storm. Alia and michael | My[confined]Space
  • The word pinche in Mexico is such a commonly used palabra despectiva that most people only associate with its vulgar meaning. Flowers in the Desert
  • As writers and editors, they wanted clear guidance, a clear distinction between educated, cultured usage, standard American English, and uneducated or vulgar usage.
  • Charlene was acting differently to how she acted at school, she was being loud and vulgar, speaking her mind on anything and everything.
  • Vulgarity is a very important ingredient in life.
  • I like to grow some weeds in my garden – mullein being one of my favorite, but I also have some Prunella vulgaris that I got from my parents. Bloom Day/Weed Day July 2009 « Fairegarden
  • Britain is a cultural treasure house, a center for entertainment from the most sophisticated to the very vulgar indeed.
  • To his detractors, Guston symbolized the regression of American culture, its surrender of serious painterly values to the vulgar sirens of mass culture.
  • in England `fanny' is vulgar slang for female genitals
  • It would thus have been a loanword from Hebrew in the vulgar speech of the Greek settlers in Egypt.
  • Combined with a glass of wine, sweet and vulgar in taste to any connoisseurs, such made for a perfect repast in the quiet of his home.
  • English masterpieces of immaculate and moderately good prose extracts and dramatic passages, published with notes for the use of the native student, at weltering in a hotchpot and hurley-burley of arbitrarily distorted and very vulgarised cockneydoms and purely London provincialities, which must be of necessity to him as casting pearls before a swine! Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
  • The Communion-table is of wood, with a vulgar-looking attempt at superaltar and reredos.
  • Van Wyk's narrator, a harum-scarum, hard-drinking journalist called Scara Nhlabatsi, relishes all manner of rude jokes, bawdy abuse, malapropisms and puns and provides a slew of images of the vulgar excess of power.
  • He sees the gaiety of Sundays, the flashes of the sun, the oddity of a crowd carried away by the rhythm of the valses, the laughter, the clinking of glasses, the vibrating and hot atmosphere; and he applies to this spectacle of joyous vulgarity his gifts as a sumptuous colourist, the arabesque of the lines, the gracefulness of his bathers, and the happy eurythmy of his soul. The French Impressionists (1860-1900)
  • His dialogues border on the vulgar and the lewd and thanks to his ilk, we know why people look down upon the rustic.
  • The vulgar language was a way of signalling to the voters that he was one of them, not speaking in political officialese or respecting the conventions of polite society.
  • Nature in some twenty odd years had draped the cliff with fern -- the _Polypodium vulgare_ -- and Mrs Bosenna in her early married days had planted the crevices with arabis, alyssum, and aubrietia, which had taken root and spread, and now, overflowing their ledges, ran down in cascades of bloom -- white, yellow, and purple. Hocken and Hunken
  • For there is no vulgarity in a title strongly signifying the intent. One of Our Conquerors — Complete
  • The loud, the abusive, the vulgar have demolished the restraints and the manners which heretofore governed public discourse.
  • That's right, I shall stop using vulgarities as well.
  • Victorian critics derided its vulgarity. Times, Sunday Times
  • »4* DIOSCORIDIS Vulgares tampfan£. flores amicijiimos afibus creant & fauorum ce „ tas exuberant. Pedanii Dioscoridis Anazarbei De medicinali materia libri sex
  • in the twilight zone between humor and vulgarity
  • These goddesses stepping into a car, vulgarly called a cariole, the mortals followed, and explored alley after alley and pavilion after pavilion. Dreams Waking Thoughts and Incidents
  • We are shown into a miserable garret, and introduced to a vulgar, illiterate, cockneyfied, dirty, dandified linendraper's shopman, in the person of _Tittlebat Titmouse_. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 27, 1841
  • This is the high place of Chinese devotion, and the thoughtful visitor feels that he ought to tread its courts with unsandalled feet, for no vulgar idolatry has entered here. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891
  • I adjure you to drop whatever vulgar habits you may have learned before you meet your husband.
  • There is one form of aneurism which is not infrequently overlooked, affecting the anterior mesenteric artery, primarily induced by a worm -- _Strongylus vulgaris_. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • Conclusion: (1) Chinese herb Foeniculum Vulgare Mill could accelerate diuresis, improve the degree of fibrous liver and reverse the function of liver.
  • In programming that they originate, their down-home local guests probably employ vulgarity less than big-city folks; and small-town stations generally cannot afford or cannot attract foul-mouthed glitteratae from Hollywood. Archive 2009-04-01
  • This specimen of profound vulgarity, spotted at the Beverly Hills Neiman Marcus between cases of Baccarat and Limoges, is a jewel-encrusted Mister Potato Head. Boing Boing: March 26, 2006 - April 1, 2006 Archives
  • Manufacturers and importers are confident that there is now a market in India for what are called ‘luxury goods’, but are better described as products that are a vulgar display of extreme wealth.
  • And when I am despairing, I shall recall these wonderful words of HPL, quoted in the Guardian today: I am well-nigh resolv'd to write no more tales, but merely to dream when I have a mind to, not stopping to do any thing so vulgar as to set down the dream for a boarish Publick. Hot 'n Humid
  • But this is a play about class as well as sex: I had forgotten how subtly Rattigan suggests the opposing counsels inhabit the same masonic clubman's world while the accused, however innocent of the charge, is branded a corrupter of youth and a vulgar sensualist. Review | Old Vic | Cause Célèbre | Michael Billington
  • He believed her to be simply a vulgar, interfering, brazen-faced virago. A dollop from Trollope | clusterflock
  • The results, published in the European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology, show that Omega 3 fatty acids are present in all fish roe, but especially in the eggs of Atlantic bonito (Sarda sarda), mackerel (Scomber scombrus), squid (Loligo vulgaris), cuttlefish (Sepia sp.), lumpsucker (Cyclopterus lumpus), hake PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • The full dress of a Proctor's man – or "bulldog", as he is vulgarly called-is picturesque enough, for it is of a seventeenth-century pattern and consists in a long blue cloak studded with brass buttons.
  • Yet when I name custom, I understand not the vulgar custom; for that were a precept no less dangerous to language than life, if we should speak or live after the manners of the vulgar: but that I call custom of speech, which is the consent of the learned; as custom of life, which is the consent of the good. Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems
  • But this resurrection is so often artless and joyless gloating, reducing an intense physiological/psychological experience to vulgar explication.
  • They said the film was obscene and vulgar and showed women in a poor light.
  • I will not, however, approve any ads that I deem to be racist, vulgar, or hostile to my religious beliefs.
  • The same may be said of the buzzard (buteo vulgaris). Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter
  • As if this was not bad enough, the article was accompanied by a vulgar colour photograph of the winning side in various stages of undress.
  • There are those who condemn it as mob rule that vulgarises society and as a belief that tolerates mediocrity and incompetence.
  • Yesterday the five-member commission unanimously declared that, fleeting or not, and in whatever context, the word was a vulgarity and as a result a violation.
  • Water consumption Phaseolus vulgaris conditions irrigation leached chernozem soil Suceava MyLinkVault Newest Links
  • L. Castelvetro, Poetica d'Aristotele vulgarizzata (1570); Correzione d'alcune cose del dialogo della lingua de B. Varchi (1572), p. 72. CLASSIFICATION OF THE ARTS
  • If you are not among the lovers of vulgarly vile funny filth, you may want to cut a wide swath around this release.
  • Another must have roses in winter, alieni temporis flores, snow-water in summer, fruits before they can be or are usually ripe, artificial gardens and fishponds on the tops of houses, all things opposite to the vulgar sort, intricate and rare, or else they are nothing worth. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • This is beastly stuff of the doctor's, Chris, it puts my monkey up; I can't help swearing after I've taken it; it's as beastly as a vulgar woman's laugh, and I don't know anything beastlier than that! Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works
  • There is little to suggest any aesthetic vulgarity or antipathy to culture on their part.
  • The skit was getting more and more vulgar and explicit, the volume was turned up far too loud, and it became evident to me that my driver was playing a prank.
  • Much of what he writes is haute vulgarization of the best kind: witty, thoughtful, and accurate analyses of and commentaries upon the thought of other contemporary theorists.
  • It is more nearly adequate to say that vulgarized Nietzschean thought activated latent problems, and accelerated indigenous trends, already present in American life.
  • The vulgar Latin hath it, regnum sacerdotale, to which agreeth the translation of that place, sacerdotium regale, a regal priesthood; 93 as also the institution itself, by which no man might enter into the sanctum sanctorum, that is to say, no man might enquire God's will immediately of God Leviathan
  • This is done to create an awe and respect towards him in the eye of the vulgar; but lest it should elevate him too much in his own opinion, in order to his humiliation he receives every evening in private, from a kind of beadle, a gentle kick on his posteriors; besides which he wears a ring in his nose, somewhat resembling that we ring our pigs with, and a chain round his neck not unlike that worn by our aldermen; both which I suppose to be emblematical, but heard not the reasons of either assigned. The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
  • I'm glad to have about eight seconds here to express my complete disgust at the degree to which filth and sleaze and vulgarity and every kind of offensive language is now dominant in our language.
  • The rent-seeking dynamic doesn't get much more vulgar than this city's zoning code.
  • This means that even brute action is a form of contemplation, for even the most vulgar or base act has, at its base and as its cause, the impulse to contemplate the greater.
  • Windsor Castle, or the New Houses of Parliament, be assured that loyalty and John Bullism reign there; and, although you meet with no servility, you will not be disgusted with vulgar assumption, such as cocking up dirty legs in dirty boots on a dirty stove, wearing the hat, and not deigning to answer a civil question. Canada and the Canadians Volume I
  • Sir T. Browne treats of chiromancy, or the art of telling fortunes by means of lines in the hands, in his “Vulgar Errors,” lib.v. cap. Religio Medici
  • And he had over Byron this further advantage: his noodledom was not a matter of common knowledge; whereas Byron's vulgarity had ever needed to be in the glare of the footlights of Europe. Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story
  • Treatment consists in administration of moderate to large doses of potassium iodide, and in the employment of antiseptic and parasiticide applications; usually, however, radical treatment, such as employed in lupus vulgaris, may be necessary. Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine
  • All this pretentious over-ornamentation is cosmeticism, the powder and paint of the vulgarian striving to conceal by a futile advertisement her lack of refinement. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View
  • Gravity-defying motor cyclists riding the ‘wall of death’ at funfairs fascinated the masses, as well as poets and people from high society who developed a great liking for these ‘vulgar’ forms of motorised popular culture.
  • Personally, I find this practice extremely vulgar, as there always remains evidence of their habit in the U-bend of their toilet bowl.
  • And the tumblebug toils and pants and sweats and worries, pushing its burden up hill forever, like Sisyphus, and pretty soon some one comes along and thinks how vulgar and ugly it is, and steps on it and squashes it. Maxims and Light Verse
  • The first oil shocks and gas-station lines in peacetime history; the first presidential resignation ever; assassinations and riots; failing schools; failing industries; polarized politics; vulgarized culture; polluted air and water; divisive and inconclusive wars. How America Can Rise Again
  • It would be tedious to go over all the rest in this way; for the speech of the vulgar makes use of them all, even of those more curious figures which mean the very opposite of what they say, as for example, those called irony and antiphrasis. On Christian Doctrine, in Four Books
  • River, which has since been "improved" out of existence, -- was a favorite place of resort with my old friend and his fair companion -- _fair_, no doubt she was, albeit her beauty was hidden from the vulgar gaze in the manner already indicated. Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman
  • This expansion was justified by pseudoscientific argument, grounded in a vulgarized version of Darwin, the ‘survival of the fittest.’
  • Instalação para divulgar a série de livros Maximum Ride, sobre crianças que podem voar. Archive 2009-08-01
  • I speak, of course, of Riverdance, with its scantily clad females dancing in unison with men, in a vulgar display of wantonness and unbridled lust.
  • The number of rare species includes the serpentine thrift (Armeria vulgaris serpentini), the pannonian thyme, the prostrated speedwell, the English galingale and the mudwort.

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