Example sentences for: vulgar

How can you use “vulgar” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Vulgar , which really means no more than `unrefined,' is rarely encountered in modern dictionaries as a label because people have taken to designating four-letter words as vulgar, illustrating the semantic process known as pejoration `depreciation,' the opposite of melioration . Today we should probably consider labeling Great!

  • I want to tell you how really disappointed I was, when reading the first entry of the "Diary" from Lorenzo Semple Jr., to encounter a really vulgar word.

  • Terms which border on the vulgar tend to be onomatopoeic: examples include chuggie, duffs, dubs, biffy, honk , and thunderbox .

  • This week's episode was as cuddly as an episode of Full House , and the previous one, in which it's discovered that the moon has become a vulgar tourist trap, seemed recycled from Simpsons outtakes right down to the "Whalers on the Moon" singing panorama.

  • Years ago, lexicographers used the label Colloquial to designate words and senses that were at a language level somewhat below that of formal usage but not so low down and dirty as to be considered Vulgar or Slang . A word like Goody!


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