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Another word for vulgar

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Adjective

  1. Lacking high station or birth

    See also:

    over

  2. Lacking in delicacy or refinement

    See also:

    smooth

    courtesy

  3. Offensive to accepted standards of decency

    See also:

    decent

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Another word for vulgar

Modifier

  1. Lacking in refinement or taste

    See also:

    tasteless

    rude

    Antonyms:

  2. Obscene

    See also:

    lewd

  3. Common

    See also:

    common

    coarse

    common

    colloquial

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Sentence Examples

  • Avoid vulgar errors; cherish universal sympathy.

  • " The vulgar almost imagine him as a finite thing."

  • Returning to Paris, he became professor of vulgar Arabic in the school of living Oriental languages in 1821, and also professor of Arabic in the College de France in 1833.

  • Thus the sacrament which was intended to be a bond of peace, became a chief cause of dissension and bloodshed, and was often discussed as if it were a vulgar talisman.

  • But this seems an unwarrantable concession to the vulgar opinion that two bodies cannot co-exist in the same place.

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