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Vulgar   /vˈəlgər/   Listen
adjective
Vulgar  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to the mass, or multitude, of people; common; general; ordinary; public; hence, in general use; vernacular. "As common as any the most vulgar thing to sense. " "Things vulgar, and well-weighed, scarce worth the praise." "It might be more useful to the English reader... to write in our vulgar language." "The mechanical process of multiplying books had brought the New Testament in the vulgar tongue within the reach of every class."
2.
Belonging or relating to the common people, as distinguished from the cultivated or educated; pertaining to common life; plebeian; not select or distinguished; hence, sometimes, of little or no value. "Like the vulgar sort of market men." "Men who have passed all their time in low and vulgar life." "In reading an account of a battle, we follow the hero with our whole attention, but seldom reflect on the vulgar heaps of slaughter."
3.
Hence, lacking cultivation or refinement; rustic; boorish; also, offensive to good taste or refined feelings; low; coarse; mean; base; as, vulgar men, minds, language, or manners. "Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar."
Vulgar fraction. (Arith.) See under Fraction.



noun
Vulgar  n.  
1.
One of the common people; a vulgar person. (Obs.) "These vile vulgars are extremely proud."
2.
The vernacular, or common language. (Obs.)






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"Vulgar" Quotes from Famous Books



... like it; she had an idea that all military ladies were dashing and vulgar, but she could not say there was any objection, so she went on to the head of poor Fanny's offending. "This young man, my dear, he seems to make himself ...
— The Clever Woman of the Family • Charlotte M. Yonge

... appearance either. I should say she isn't refined. Why just now out there she pulled the forester from Anna's side and asked him to dance with her. We wouldn't do things that way. But when the highborn wish to unbend they become vulgar. Splendid she is though! ...
— Plays: The Father; Countess Julie; The Outlaw; The Stronger • August Strindberg

... 1870 The Last Tournament was begun; it was finished in May 1871. Conceivably the vulgar scandals of the last days of the French Imperial regime may have influenced Tennyson's picture of the corruption of Arthur's Court; but the Empire did not begin, like the Round Table, with aspirations after the Ideal. ...
— Alfred Tennyson • Andrew Lang

... characters; "Our Mutual Friend" begun in May, 1864; a complicated narrative; Dickens' extraordinary sympathy for Eugene Wrayburn; generally his sympathies are so entirely right; which explains why his books are not vulgar; he himself a man ...
— Life of Charles Dickens • Frank Marzials

... and impossible monsters and subjects of profane history, the Griffin, the Mermaid, the Phoenix, Arion and Hermes has each had its Mark or Marks. In the case of the first named, which, according to Sir Thomas Browne, in his "Vulgar Errors," is emblematical of watchfulness, courage, perseverance, and rapidity of execution, it is not surprising that the Gryphius family, from the evident pun on their surname, should have considered it as in their particular preserves. As may be imagined, it does ...
— Printers' Marks - A Chapter in the History of Typography • William Roberts


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