Someone who's vulgar has bad taste, and could also be called unrefined or unsophisticated. Your snobby neighbor might mutter about your family's vulgar taste if you paint your house with rainbow stripes.
Of or pertaining to the mass, or multitude, of people; common; general; ordinary; public; hence, in general use; vernacular.
Adjective S.
conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "coarse language"; "a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited"
Adjective S.
being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species"
Adjective S.
of or associated with the great masses of people; "the common people in those days suffered greatly"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "his square plebeian nose"; "a vulgar and objectionable person"; "the unwashed masses"
Adjective S.
lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence";
a.
Of or pertaining to the mass, or multitude, of people;
common; general; ordinary; public; hence, in general use; vernacular.
a.
Belonging or relating to the common people, as
distinguished from the cultivated or educated; pertaining to common
life; plebeian; not select or distinguished; hence, sometimes, of
little or no value.
a.
Hence, lacking cultivation or refinement; rustic; boorish;
also, offensive to good taste or refined feelings; low; coarse; mean;
base; as, vulgar men, minds, language, or manners.
n.
One of the common people; a vulgar person.
n.
The vernacular, or common language.
Vulgar
Things vulgar, and well-weighed, scarce worth the praise.
It might be more useful to the English reader . . . to write in our vulgar language.
The mechanical process of multiplying books had brought the New Testament in the vulgar tongue within the reach of every class.2.
Men who have passed all their time in low and vulgar life.
In reading an account of a battle, we follow the hero with our whole attention, but seldom reflect on the vulgar heaps of slaughter.3.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
Vulgar
These vile vulgars are extremely proud.2.
Of or pertaining to the mass, or multitude, of people; common; general; ordinary; public; hence, in general use; vernacular.
One of the common people; a vulgar person.
Usage Examples
You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.
Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.
Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
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Other Usage ExamplesI don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation.
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
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