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vulgarity |
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vulgarity Noun pl -ties 1. the condition of being vulgar 2. a vulgar action or phrase Vulgarity the common people, 1579; the commonalty. ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
vulgarity noun 1. tastelessness, bad taste, grossness, tawdriness, gaudiness, lack of refinement << OPPOSITE tastefulness 2. crudeness, rudeness, coarseness, crudity, ribaldry, suggestiveness, indelicacy, indecorum << OPPOSITE decorum 3. coarseness, roughness, boorishness, rudeness, loutishness, oafishness, uncouthness << OPPOSITE refinement |
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said the Retraction, with contemptuous vulgarity of speech. A few months ago I was at the old home, and I read that book again, after not looking at it for more than thirty years; and I read it with amazement at its prevailing artistic vulgarity, its prevailing aesthetic error shot here and there with gleams of light, and of the truth that Reade himself was always dimly groping for. But I admit that the cart has got a little in front of the horse, and I grow suddenly alarmed lest the reader should be suspecting me of an elopement, or some such romantic vulgarity. |
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