vulgar English

Meaning vulgar meaning

What does vulgar mean?

Definitions in simple English

vulgar Adjective

— If something is vulgar, it is obscene or offensive. The words "cunt" and "fuck" are seen as very vulgar, you should be careful using them.

— If something is vulgar, it is ordinary. A vulgar fraction is a .

vulgar

— adjective (= coarse, common, uncouth) lacking refinement or cultivation or taste he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind behavior that branded him as common an untutored and uncouth human being an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy appealing to the vulgar taste for violence the vulgar display of the newly rich

— adjective (= common, vernacular) being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language common parlance a vernacular term vernacular speakers the vulgar tongue of the masses the technical and vulgar names for an animal species

— adjective (= common, plebeian, unwashed) of or associated with the great masses of people the common people in those days suffered greatly behavior that branded him as common his square plebeian nose a vulgar and objectionable person the unwashed masses

— adjective (= crude, earthy, gross) conspicuously and tastelessly indecent coarse language a crude joke crude behavior an earthy sense of humor a revoltingly gross expletive a vulgar gesture full of language so vulgar it should have been edited

Synonyms vulgar synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as vulgar?

vulgar English » English

coarse

common

rude

crude

obscene

indecent

base

rough

low

uncouth

gross

mean

cheap

unrefined

rustic

raw

ordinary

lewd

common people

vile

tacky

shabby

dirty

boorish

worldly-minded

violent

unpolished

rabble

popular

plebeian

lowbred

humble

harsh

earthy

wild

vulgarity

vernacular

unwrought

unworked

unwashed

uneducated

uncultured

uncultivated

tasteless

showy

shoddy

rough-cut

profane

masses

low-class

Topics vulgar topics

What do people use vulgar to talk about?

Language and thought Communication Foolish talk

Obscenity

• What words describe speech or actions that are obscene?
  obscene coarse crude dirty filthy improper indecent lewd naughty profane risqué rude saucy suggestive vulgar

Examples vulgar examples

How do I use vulgar in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I am fed up with his vulgar jokes.

You want to learn Russian? But that's even more vulgar than French!

People are too materialistic these days, in the vulgar, rather than the philosophical sense of the word.

He always tells vulgar jokes.

English mother-tongue speakers are embarrassed to correctly pronounce the name of the German philosopher Kant, which is a homophone for a vulgar expression referring to the female genitals.

Live can so easily degenerate into something sordid and vulgar.

Sentences referring to sexual matters tend to be considered vulgar on Tatoeba.

She's vulgar.

Movie subtitles

Well, Jared was being vulgar of course.

Vulgar?

And that noisy, vulgar man?

Telling Sophie she looked elegantly alluring in an ugly, vulgar.

I sold her that vulgar, tasteless dress because I thought it suited her perfectly.

Don't be vulgar.

I saw all the nations strengthening not in wisdom, but in the vulgar passions and the will to destroy.

You'll have the biggest and most vulgar ring in Atlanta.

It is the individual I spoke, Sir Humphrey Birdkin a vulgar radical.

Bugle too vulgar for you guys?

Such is the vulgar opinion, sir!

Don't be vulgar, Jean.

I always knew you were a nasty, vulgar rogue.

Do you think I'm going to leave it to the vulgar pawing. of a second-rate detective who thinks you're a dame?

Don't get vulgar, Ravelli.

Don't be vulgar. Sorry, dear. And I don't care if you are well-preserved for your age.

And vulgar.

But laughter itself. It's an absurd, vulgar convulsion.

Miriam, darling, don't be vulgar.

Don't be vulgar, Bildocker!

Are you trying to be vulgar?

Life can so easily degenerate into something sordid and vulgar.

The most vulgar, impossible, obnoxious, ill-mannered.

Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.

You're vulgar.

You're a vulgar ballerina and make no mistake!

I can't stand a naked light bulb any more than I can a rude remark. or a vulgar action.

This old maid, she had a parrot that cursed a blue streak. and knew more vulgar expressions than Mr. Kowalski.

Pig, Polack, disgusting, vulgar, greasy.

You're so vulgar!

Don't use vulgar words in my presence.

I forgot that once accepted, it's vulgar to suggest marriage isn't arranged in heaven.

It's not very dignified. Matter of fact, it's rather vulgar.

Don't be vulgar!

You offend us with your vulgar suspicions.

And do you believe this vulgar man?

News and current affairs

Conspiracy theories are seen as vulgar and lowbrow.

In fact, the British monarchy, especially, has been reinventing itself by adopting many of the most vulgar features of modern showbiz or sports celebrity.

Senior managers were so disengaged that they allowed their employees to act like vulgar, overpaid children.

In fact, the responses from members of the public to these controversies were mostly of a vulgar nationalistic and anti-Semitic tone.

Yet, on the other hand, his flashy style is considered vulgar by traditional French elites, who are keen to dissociate themselves from someone whose educational background and instinctive reactions clearly marks him as not one of them.

Europeans like to sneer at American political jamborees as being hopelessly vulgar.

But a democratically elected government should be judged on its politics, not on the rhetoric of a populist politician, however vulgar and repulsive.

Culture is a necessary pause from the daily rat race, from our chaotic and often vulgar political surroundings, and it is a chance to recover our spiritual energy.

They, too, are humiliated by their leaders' performance and, more deeply, their vulgar despotic essence.

In Paris, Charlie Hebdo has given form to the spirit of democratic freedom: the ability to write, draw, and publish anything - even extreme (and at times vulgar) provocations.

Here is one case where a bit more vulgar showbiz may be exactly what democracy requires.

In a mere 13 years, Putin's regime, with its grand ideological style, has passed through all of the stages of Soviet history, becoming a vulgar parody of each.

In fact, Putin has nothing to offer Russians aside from his own vulgar, hackneyed rhetoric.

His vulgar comments are not particularly frightful.

In that, there is a sign that even the Communists recognize that, at the end of one century and the beginning of a new one, the old vulgar tricks are not enough.

Of course, the source of such an astonishing finding is difficult to trust, like everything else in Romanian politics, but the vulgar and radical coarsening of public discourse - now peppered with old-new xenophobic elements - is clear enough.