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noun

Vulgarity n.

The quality or state of being vulgar; mean condition of life; the state of the lower classes of society.

Grossness or clownishness of manners of language; absence of refinement; coarseness. "The reprobate vulgarity of the frequenters of Bartholomew Fair."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Vulgarity" Quotes from Famous Books

... copy. The peculiar step to which I allude is to be seen often on the boulevards in Paris. It is to be seen more often in second-rate French towns, and among fourth-rate French women. Of all signs in women betokening vulgarity, bad taste, and aptitude to bad morals, it is the surest. And this is the gait of going which American mothers— some American mothers I should say—love to teach their daughters! As a comedy at a hotel it is very delightful, but in private life ...

— Volume 1 • Anthony Trollope

... surviving a complete submergence in the sparkling shallows of Florrie's personality. He was a man of sense and of breeding. He possessed the ordinary culture of a gentleman as well as the trained mind of a lawyer, yet he appeared impervious alike to the cheapness of Florrie's wit and the vulgarity of her taste. Her beauty had not only blinded him to her mental deficiencies; it had actually deluded him into a belief in her intelligence. He treated her slangy sallies as if they were an original species of humour; ...

— Life and Gabriella - The Story of a Woman's Courage • Ellen Glasgow

... break out into an enthusiastic exclamation: "Oh, beautiful Venice!" The world has heard more of the natural beauties of Naples than of the artificial ones of Venice, but when Naples is made the scene of a drama of any kind it seems that its attractions for librettist and composer lie in the vulgarity and vice, libertinism and lust, the wickedness and wantonness, of a portion of its people rather than in the loveliness of character which such a place might ...

— A Second Book of Operas • Henry Edward Krehbiel

... illusion of being alone in the roots of the world dropped off me very quickly, and I wondered how people could be so helpless and foolish as to travel about in Switzerland as tourists and meet with all this vulgarity and beastliness. ...

— The Path to Rome • Hilaire Belloc

... one will see a flock of English sparrows, and the sweet-voiced song-sparrow endeavors to make up for the vulgarity of its English cousin by the delicate softness ...

— The Lake of the Sky • George Wharton James

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