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UK
/vʌlɡˈæɹɪti/
]
[ US /vəɫˈɡɛɹɪti/ ]
[ US /vəɫˈɡɛɹɪti/ ]
NOUN
- the quality of lacking taste and refinement
How To Use vulgarity In A Sentence
- 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
- 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.
- There is little to suggest any aesthetic vulgarity or antipathy to culture on their part.
- In doing so, Blatherwick has made you aware of the strange beauty and vulgarity of otherwise unnoticeable, routine human impulses.
- Wilson managed to get his frippet to Lahore on a plane provided by Zia, who laughed at the vulgarity of his antics.
- Broadcaster John Humphrys recently attacked shows like Big Brother for their ‘mind-numbing, witless vulgarity.’
- The dialogue is as awash in vulgarity as, well, a middle school playground. I Have No Hugo Ideas, and I Must Vote!