vulgarism

How To Use vulgarism In A Sentence

• The language that he described as American was full of regional variation, new words borrowed from immigrant groups, figurative usage from such institutions as railroading and baseball, jaunty slang, and raucous vulgarisms.
• It's just spoken English, not just vulgarisms but slang and stuff like that.
• We notice with gratification that such vulgarisms as ab´do-men, pus´sl (for pust´ule!), s_w_ord (for sord), etc., no longer continue to deface the book. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864
• IN behalf of true delicacy and womanliness, we would make an earnest protest against that quiet essence of national vulgarisms, the almost universal use of the term female as applied to woman. The Woman's Advocate, Vol. I, No V.
• But Michelle can only think of vulgarisms: she stands for a generation that, like Shakespeare's Caliban, has yet to be taught a civilized language.
• Oddly, in British English it is not these days a vulgarism, or at least only a very mild one.
• It's a neat theatrical trick that sees us introduced to the intentionally harsh vulgarisms of sexual parlance.
• You are," he confided, "if you will permit the vulgarism, completely off your head. NEVERWHERE
• Elizabethan and even 18th century authors, who represent vulgarisms so frequently, do not seem to use omissions and misplacings of h's as a characteristic of low class speech.
• If the Board of Education wants its teachers to instruct adolescents about HIV using Latinism of the academy, excluding vulgarism of the street, it should tell them so, plainly. The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause