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Example sentences for: vulgar
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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!
Also, legal language endures to “unite the priesthood,’ that the “discipline [may] not be made common among the vulgar.
Artists still scorn it as a vulgar pastiche, and the working-class residents of the area resented its being erected as a symbol of penitence for the insurrection of the 1871 Commune — they didn’t feel penitent in the least.
Its main definition in the Random House reads, “proscribed by society as improper or unacceptable: taboo words ,” which I believe is a lot closer to what the editors were seeking than Vulgar .
But the Russian meaning of a booth for crude, vulgar buffoonery seems to fit better the trick title that appeared on Mr. Horowitz's computer screen.
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