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!
Victorian critics derided its vulgarity. Times, Sunday Times
The anti-intellectual vulgarity does contribute to dumbing down.
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)
Her pallor that morning refined the indubious coarseness of her face, and changed vulgarity into the attractive originality of a spirited character. London River
He was suspended for one game by the NBA on Tuesday for yelling a sexual vulgarity at a female fan during a game.
Fashion vulgarity experts say'Darling, are you really wearing a beaded frock? Times, Sunday Times
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.
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
A term applied to art or artefacts characterized by vulgarity, sentimentality, and pretentious bad taste.
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
Pletnev's new version does much to tame the score's incipient vulgarity without compromising its more grotesque elements.
What strikes me about the events of the past week is the surreal farcical vulgarity of it all.
Vulgarity is a very important ingredient in life.
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)
For there is no vulgarity in a title strongly signifying the intent. One of Our Conquerors — Complete
Victorian critics derided its vulgarity. Times, Sunday Times
in the twilight zone between humor and vulgarity
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
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.
There is little to suggest any aesthetic vulgarity or antipathy to culture on their part.
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.
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
This wasn't just a case of a few New York highbrows flaunting their refinement in reproach of Hollywood vulgarity.
But proud though she was of her ancestry, there never was a woman freer from the vulgarity of thrusting it forward upon all and sundry, or of expecting to be honoured for it alone. The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton
She was going to jump right up off the bed and blister his ears with a lecture on vulgarity. KISS AN ANGEL
The tone is set by banter and laddishness, in which crudeness and vulgarity often tends to be a substitute for real wit rather than an organic component of it.
A woman, he told himself, should appear to us in dreams, or such a glory as may poetize her vulgarity. Pierre And Jean
Thus it is wrong to blame ‘nationalism’ for the violence and vulgarity of mass sporting events.
Emerging from a Calcutta shopping mall, where consumerism reigned in all its garish vulgarity, I noticed a large placard attached to the nearest lamppost: Female foeticide is illegal. Archive 2005-03-01
Poetry and history trump vulgarity and conspicuous consumption.
We miss its toe-curling political incorrectness, its shabby vulgarity, its embarrassed actors, and its toilet-roll scripts.
Culture or civilization in a degraded state of sentimentality and vulgarity.
Wash one's hands the left of the pool opens type go to toilet likewise, lone closestool is next to metope, not job make public, it seems that master life is very free from vulgarity .
And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Mary Hall: Fashion in 2010: What Does it Mean to be Chic?
Is anyone really interested in the vanity and vulgarity of a couple who make their living by playing up to the media?
The BCI's lexicon of vulgarity emerges from a survey of viewer and listener attitudes, published as part of the commission's efforts to develop a taste and decency code for Ireland's independent broadcasters.
The same set of circumstances which with one hand had popularised astrology, worked with the other to strip it of academic respect and taint it with vulgarity and a lack of integrity.
They appreciated his devotion to work and freedom from vulgarity.
You can expect the same vulgarity and crassness you have come to love from these fine upstanding pillars of society.
We began by trying not to be London style snobs, to keep our metropolitan insouciance zipped, but the sheer volume, the boundless gaudy vulgarity of it, overwhelms you, and you just have to howl with derision.
But at what point does the intended sex appeal or fashion liberation border on vulgarity, obscenity, and revulsion?
And the impertinent patronage of worshippers in "fustian" is at least as offensive as the older-fashioned vulgarity of pride in congregations who "come in their own carriages. Jan of the Windmill
The steady decline in our democratic culture, sinking to new levels of vulgarity, does unite neocons with traditional conservatives – though not with those libertarian conservatives who are conservative in economics but unmindful of the culture ... The Volokh Conspiracy » Further to Andrew Ferguson on Behavioral Economics
Films oscillate between sensuality and vulgarity, between suggestive sexuality and indecent exposure.
It i s mildly repulsive in its crude vulgarity, but strangely and inexplicably alluring.
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
The pink marble reception area was a monument to the vulgarity of mass tourism.
The pink marble reception area was a monument to the vulgarity of mass tourism.
This is no time for political reporters to be holding their noses like dowager duchesses aghast at the vulgarity of the masses.
He's honest about his own vulgarity as much as he is about his vulnerability.
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.
Allen and the actress Shirley Jones (The Partridge Family mom) cochaired the Parents Television Council, which supported advertisements that asked the question "Are you fed up with steamy, unmarried sex situations, filthy jokes, perversion, vulgarity, violence, killings, etc.? Blood Sugar
No homely Boston phrase defiled their anglicized lips, their great collars stood up under their chins in an ecstasy of stiffness, and their shirt - fronts bore two buttons, avoiding the antiquity of three and the vulgarity of one. An American Politician
He explains that, by the mid-1960s, transatlantic smoking rooms had metamorphosed from turn-of-the- century, men-only sancta for smoking, drinking, gambling and occasional vulgarity into larger, less smoky and prettier public rooms admitting their wives. When the Going Was Good
The pointless violence and vulgarity, however, that ends his stories smacks of an author thrashing around for an ending.
That even today a Democratic nominee speaks that way confirms G.K. Chesterton's belief that some political institutions are "parvenue by pedigree; they hand on vulgarity like a coat-of-arms. Relaxation By Exhaustion
But what you call his vulgarity, my dears, is just everyday life; and everyday life is always disgusting to the funny little Bayswaterats, who are compact of timidity and pudibonderie. Nights in London
On each occasion, they got themselves lots of ink and airtime and contributed nothing but oversize vulgarity to the scene they sought to obscure.
In Holy Trinity Church Nicholson abounded in anecdotes, vulgarity, rudeness, emotional appeals, a dogmatism so dogmatic as to frighten.
KC: Yes it does seem to work that way, just as they can use a cheap kind of anti-art or anti-dissident or anti-vulgarity rhetoric to carry out surveillance and to randomly arrest people.
-- for these fellows do not only not know or care for the observance of the city ordinance, which certainly is binding on them, but, relying on a fellow-feeling of vulgarity with the mob, resist all attempts made to remove them from the exercise of their most fearful beggary, which is not even tolerated any longer at Naples. Jersey Street and Jersey Lane Urban and Suburban Sketches
Fashion vulgarity experts say'Darling, are you really wearing a beaded frock? Times, Sunday Times
Over the years he built a pagoda to polite English society as it faded in the glare of post-war vulgarity.
And god knows I prefer honest vulgarity to polite denial of uncomfortable truths.
The mitigated vulgarity is just icing on the cake. The Volokh Conspiracy » How to Make the Bureau of Consumer Protection More Consumer Friendly:
I'm not sure that eschewing the incipient vulgarity of the two marches by Wagner is entirely a good thing, though!
Her observations about art are generally trite and when she does say something more specific, such as "an aria without a cabaletta is like sex without an orgasm", one is more stunned by the apercu's vulgarity than its accuracy. Master Class – review
Conservatives also maintained that the level of vulgarity and obscenity in popular culture was being driven upward primarily by the media conglomerates.
The most fatal form of vulgarity is described as dulness of heart and dulness of bodily sense, general stupidity being its material manifestation. Art in England Notes and Studies
Yet he couldn't pardon her vulgarity, and corrected the grammatical errors she made while she egged him on in bed.
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.
She took refuge in this extravagant, romantic atmosphere when she felt weighed down by the vulgarity of real life. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
But that devotchka was smecking away ha ha ha now with her droogs at the bar, her red rot working and her zoobies ashine, not having no - ticed Dim's filthy vulgarity. Where's the show?
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They stand at a remove from the deceit and vulgarity growing at the heart of the novel, embodied by Maryna's passion for lying and display, her willingness to flatter, conciliate and compromise.
But they made friends and treated each other, and slanged the proprietor and ragged the pretty girls; while Rickie, as each wave of vulgarity burst over him, sunk his head lower and lower, and wished that the earth would swallow him up. The Longest Journey
Vietnamese also honor reserve and modesty, attributing loudness and brashness to immaturity and vulgarity.
All too often, what would have formerly passed for simple rudeness or vulgarity is now labelled something much more menacing.
Adolph von Nassau, with the knights of the German empire, swears vengeance, and, accompanied by the chorus, pours out his feelings in a stretta of such incredible vulgarity and amateurishness that Donizetti would have thrown it at the head of any of his pupils who had dared to compose such a thing. My Life — Volume 1
Why no mention of Monty Modlin, whose honest vulgarity marked a sea-change in British broadcasting?
Hollywood's annual orgy of glamour, glitter and vulgarity - the Oscars - is almost upon us again.
My itch for vulgarity responded to those glittering froggings and facings. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
Clearly, nothing distresses the sensitive Mr Jenkins more than vulgarity.
enquired Susan rashly, displaying a sudden and mean vulgarity. SPLITTING
Then he recalled the coarseness and bluntness of her thoughts and the vulgarity of the expressions that were natural to her, though she had been brought up in the most aristocratic circles. War and Peace
You pick up hints of Benny Hill and Frankie Howard, with the unashamed innuendo that takes you to the brink of vulgarity but never drops over the edge.
Stanley Spencer had been through the war; he had experienced the horror, the vulgarity, of war.
Anywhere and any time a vulgarity or offensive expression is used in lieu of expressing an idea, there is usually a better way to make the point using non-offensive words.
I hate the vulgarity of this room.
Similarly, men often feel preassured to compete with males within a group environment, even when the criterion for ‘strength’ is vulgarity and crassness. Facebook in action « Love | Peace | Ohana
A self-confessed gossip columnist, she writes under her former married name of Lady Colin Campbell - to me her first vulgarity.
However, she also detested what she called vulgarity, and had never in her life, even when handling it, uttered the word shit. The Women’s Room
Vulgarity is a very important ingredient in life.
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It also does this by its vulgarity and childishness that corrodes the notion of the seriousness of life and the need for ascesis self-discipline, all of which are fundamental elements that maintain family cohesion and stability. Modesty of Dress and Love of God
The old challenge (rarely achieved) is to get the playing to the point where it's both charged and accurate, without reaching out in desperation for the easy solutions of vulgarity and random emotional brutality.
Sometimes also called "The Poet and the Women", it is now considered one of Aristophanes 'most brilliant parodies of Athenian society, [3] with a particular focus on the subversive role of women in a male-dominated society, the vanity of contemporary poets, such as the tragic playwrights Euripides and Agathon, and the shameless, enterprising vulgarity of an ordinary Athenian, as represented in this play by the protagonist, Mnesilochus. Archive 2009-03-01
These poor chaps were searching desperately for a project which would not be cursed with the ephemeral vulgarity of their usual tasks.
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They didn't want their fellow officers to see the vulgarity of their choice, so they invented a rule that the officers 'enclosures were for men only, which effectively silenced their popsies' pleas to be taken. ' In The Frame
Rather, his gaze falls on a ‘neutral’ zone which avoids ‘tainting’ his gaze with vulgarity or committing him to a confirmed passion.
By vulgarity vulgar Jews mean the reproduction of the Hebrew words with which the poor and the old-fashioned interlard their conversation. The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly
She laughs, radiant in her self-satisfaction, shielded by a hard hide and chutzpa from charges of vulgarity, greed or egomania.
The pink marble reception area was a monument to the vulgarity of mass tourism.
For the past six days the couple have delivered a masterclass in utter vulgarity. Times, Sunday Times
Victorian critics derided its vulgarity. Times, Sunday Times
Yes, the government has instituted a committee to look into the matter of vulgarity and obscenity and the allegations of prostitution racket involving dance bars as pick-up points.
Have discovered Valentine's Day here is an occasion of the most spectacular vulgarity. AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
His philosophy is to make elegant, clean, unoaked wines that, in his words, do not slip into vulgarity.
She is hopelessly naive about the vulgarity of American life outside her tiny, backwoods hamlet of Sparta, North Carolina.
He was more than usually polite to the major: he was in the army, the goal of his aspiration! but he laughed at what he called his vulgarity in private, and delighted to annoy Hester with remarks upon her "ancient adorer. Weighed and Wanting
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Each abuse deftly combines esoteric absurdism and audacious vulgarity to provide an instantly quotable collection of derision. IN THE LOOP DVD Review – Collider.com
Vulgarity is a very important ingredient in life.
Rounding off an exceptionally well-filled and desirable disc is a handful of Poulenc miniatures, ranging from the vulgarity of his early Valse via the farcical Manes de la Tour Eiffel pieces to the rumbustiously jolly Matelote provencale. AvaxHome RSS:
Started but did not finish: 4 (4.2%) … all distinterested lovers of books, will always look to [literature], as to all other fine art, for a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from a certain vulgarity in the actual world. March Bibliolust « A Progressive on the Prairie
Profanity, vulgarity, bad language and all such other improprieties of speech were things that just might cause him to all but faint.
Still, noodledom was nearer than vulgarity to dandyism. Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story
The piano was transformed from gentle intimacy to huge, brash vulgarity.
The overlarge and overcolored automobile was an example of vulgarity of midtwentieth - centyry America.
It is not thy refinement makes thee despise him; it is thy own vulgarity; and if we dare not search ourselves close enough to discover the low breeding, the bad blood in us, it will one day come out plain as the smitten brand of the _forcat_. Weighed and Wanting
As the devil of ill-luck would have it, half the audience did not know that H. had written it, but were displeased at his stealing from the "Road to Ruin;" and those who might have borne a gentlemanly coxcomb with his "That's your sort," "Go it" -- such as Lewis is -- did not relish the intolerable vulgarity and inanity of the idea stript of his manner. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb
For the past six days the couple have delivered a masterclass in utter vulgarity. Times, Sunday Times
This expression (etre siffle) bears the stamp of the deceitfully affable vulgarity in which he frequently took pleasure in indulging. Ten Years' Exile
Over the years he built a pagoda to polite English society as it faded in the glare of post-war vulgarity.
The sheer vulgarity of the presidential jet and the extravagance it represents is disconcerting.
He tried to explain to Cassie: `I've become repelled by the greed and vulgarity I see around me. THE IMAGE OF LAURA
Just as the world is transforming itself into a wonderland of cascading tinsel, cherubs and illuminated trees, some humanist somewhere is sure to have begun ranting about the pointless vulgarity of it all.
After a while, though, I found the spirit of vulgarity and tackiness fascinating - you have to admire the Japanese ability to blend modernity and materialism with age-old traditions.
The greenish-yellow hair looked dull gold by lamplight; her eyes gleamed blackly from their blue crystallized lids (the bath of indigo being a stage device known to all devotees of the art), and her dancing, which immediately commenced to her own castanets and a subdued "pizzicato" from the two violins, was original and graceful, and free from any taint of vulgarity. Ringfield A Novel
You can expect the same vulgarity and crassness you have come to love from these fine upstanding pillars of society.
Fortunately, the potential for vulgarity is dissipated by Halo's reputation for quality.
At times, her attacks were directed straightforwardly against the vulgarity of the middle ranks.
Her grandmother, Madame Duval from Paris (an English barmaid before ensnaring Evelina's grandfather), shows up and is a marvel of bawdy vulgarity.
Their line was that the true standards of beauty are being ignored or flouted by modern vulgarity and commercialism. Times, Sunday Times

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