Example sentences for: vulgar

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

  • Gresham's Law ("bad money drives out good money") has been widely applied to matters of culture and taste--for instance, in explanations of why television is awash in vulgar programming.

  • 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.

  • The perception and usage of these terms is personal, and I, for example, prefer to use vulgar to describe current manifestations like Roseanne, Butthead and Beavis , and other television shows that exhibit crude situations encountered by rude people; drawings and graphic style, as in Butthead , some of the “artwork” in Mad Magazine , and many of the new cartoons on the television are extraordinarily vulgar and tasteless, without any redeeming quality.

  • The Random House Unabridged - Second Edition labels fuck as Vulgar , but none of the definitions given for that term in the dictionary itself seems to fit.

  • Highlighting is a natural and favored component, as in the fondness for abbreviations, acronyms, capital letters, telescoping, emoticons, interjections, and other striking visual devices, not to mention their frequently slangy ( plunk I just put you in my killfile) or vulgar ( RTFM Read the fucking manual) content, as well as onomatopoeic renditions ( bang common spoken name for !).


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