vul·gar

(vŭl′gər)

adj.

a. Crudely indecent: a vulgar joke.

b. Deficient in taste, consideration, or refinement: "that vulgar jockeying for position around the bedside of the gravely ill" (Susan Sontag).

c. Given to crudity or tastelessness, as in one's behavior: "He relentlessly vilified the studio executives as vulgar, ignorant hoodlums" (Marion Meade).

d. Offensively excessive in self-display or expenditure; ostentatious: the huge vulgar houses and cars of the newly rich.

2. Spoken by or expressed in language spoken by the common people; vernacular: the technical and vulgar names for an animal species.

3. Of or associated with the great masses of people; common.

[Middle English, of or relating to the common people, from Latin vulgāris, from vulgus, the common people.]

vul′gar·ly adv.

vul′gar·ness n.

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Adv.

vulgarly - in a smutty manner

smuttily

Translations

بسوقِيَّه، بِفَظاظَه

lidověvulgárně

plat

vulgär

vulgairement

közönségesen

lágkúrulega

volgarmente

vulgært

ľudovovulgárne

kabacaterbiyesizce

庸俗地粗陋地通俗地

vulgarly

[ˈvʌlgəlɪ] ADV

1. (= in an unrefined way) → de un modo ordinario, vulgarmente

2. (= tastelessly) → con mal gusto

3. (= indecently) → groseramente

4. (= in ordinary parlance) sodium chloride, vulgarly known as salt → cloruro de sodio, vulgarmente conocido como sal

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

vulgarly

adv

(= coarsely) → vulgär; dressed → geschmacklos

(= commonly) → allgemein, gemeinhin; vulgarly called … → gemeinhin auch genannt …

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

vulgar

(ˈvalgə) adjective

1. not generally socially acceptable, decent or polite; ill-mannered. Such behaviour is regarded as vulgar.

2. of the common or ordinary people. the vulgar tongue/language.

ˈvulgarly adverb

vulˈgarity (-ˈgӕ-) – plural vulˈgarities – noun

(an example of) bad manners, bad taste etc, in eg speech, behaviour etc. the vulgarity of his language.

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Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers.

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We're getting vulgarly hard up again, and there's an end on 't.

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"Very handsome indeed," said Sir Charles, secretly disgusted at being invited to admire a photograph, such as house agents exhibit, of a vulgarly designed country house, merely because it had cost seventy-five thousand pounds.

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The four and six-penny manual, mostly in his lithographed handwriting, that was never vulgarly advertized, may perhaps some day be taken up by a syndicate and pushed upon the public as The Times pushed the Encyclopaedia Britannica; but until then it will certainly not prevail against Pitman.

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I don't like you!" Then, after this deliverance, which might have been that of a vulgarly pert little girl in the street, she hugged Mrs.

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"Lastly, you avow and confess to having, with the aid of the demon, and of the phantom vulgarly known as the surly monk, on the night of the twenty-ninth of March last, murdered and assassinated a captain named Phoebus de Châteaupers?"

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And how vulgarly she shouted," he said to himself, remembering her shriek and the words--"scoundrel" and "mistress." "And very likely the maids were listening!

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He sank under a contagious disorder, very prevalent at that time, and vulgarly termed the jail fever.

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Thus a literal translation of the name of this beautiful sheet of water, used by the tribe that dwelt on its banks, would be "The Tail of the Lake." Lake George, as it is vulgarly, and now, indeed, legally, called, forms a sort of tail to Lake Champlain, when viewed on the map.

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Neither are picturesque lazzaroni or romantic criminals half so frequent as your common labourer, who gets his own bread and eats it vulgarly but creditably with his own pocket-knife.

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He played badly and vulgarly, but the performance was not without its effect, for Jacky said she thought she'd be going to bed.

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Black Sam, upon this, scratched his woolly pate, which, if it did not contain very profound wisdom, still contained a great deal of a particular species much in demand among politicians of all complexions and countries, and vulgarly denominated "knowing which side the bread is buttered;" so, stopping with grave consideration, he again gave a hitch to his pantaloons, which was his regularly organized method of assisting his mental perplexities.

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