Vulgar?

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Someone who’s vulgar has bad taste, and could also be called unrefined or unsophisticated. Your snobby neighbor might mutter about your family’s vulgar taste if you paint your house with rainbow stripes.

From the Latin vulgus, meaning “the common people,” vulgar is an adjective that can describe anything from the sexually explicit to the merely ugly and crass. Many people believe that there’s an important difference between things that are sexually frank and things that are vulgar. “Erotica” can be beautiful and even highbrow, while “pornography” is crude and vulgar. My friend Arnie loves the lights and glamour of Times Square, while Cintra finds all the bright-colored, corporate logos to be vulgar.

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adj of or associated with the great masses of people

“a vulgar and objectionable person”
Synonyms:
common, plebeian, unwashed
lowborn

of humble birth or origins

adj being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language

“the vulgar tongue of the masses”
“the technical and vulgar names for an animal species”
Synonyms:
common, vernacular
informal

used of spoken and written language

adj lacking refinement or cultivation or taste

“appealing to the vulgar taste for violence”
“the vulgar display of the newly rich”
Synonyms:
coarse, common, rough-cut, uncouth
unrefined

(used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth

adj conspicuously and tastelessly indecent

“a vulgar gesture”
“full of language so vulgar it should have been edited”
Synonyms:
crude, earthy, gross
indecent

offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters
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2 thoughts on “Vulgar?”

  1. In botanical Latin, the term ‘vulgaris’ is used to denote the common species, such as primula vulgaris – the common Primrose.

    1. Yes,I was looking at common first.It seems to have shades of meaning… saying someone is common means lacking in the kind of taste most valued.Witfh postmodernism there is no absolute standard of good taste!It should be linked to courtesy and consideration…. maybe it is those who don’t belong to an elite.
      Is it because fewer young people can hope to join the elite?I thought a President should appear to have dignity and some minimum of ethical awareness.Now the despised wish to me ruled by someone who unconsciously is one of them…. these horrible social gradations are dangerous…

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