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    vul·gar
    [ˈvəlɡər]
    adjective
    vulgar (adjective)
    1. lacking sophistication or good taste; unrefined:
      "the vulgar trappings of wealth"
      • making explicit and offensive reference to sex or bodily functions; coarse and rude:
        "a vulgar joke"
      • dated
        characteristic of or belonging to the masses.
    Origin
    late Middle English: from Latin vulgaris, from vulgus ‘common people’. The original senses were ‘used in ordinary calculations’ (surviving in vulgar fraction) and ‘in ordinary use, used by the people’ (surviving in vulgar tongue).
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    adjective
    1. lacking sophistication or good taste; unrefined:
      tasteless
      gross
      crass
      unrefined
      tawdry
      ostentatious
      flamboyant
      overelaborate
      overdone
      showy
      flashy
      gaudy
      garish
      brassy
      kitsch
      flaunting
      glaring
      brash
      loud
      harsh
      impolite
      ill-mannered
      unmannerly
      indecorous
      unseemly
      ill-bred
      boorish
      low
      low-minded
      uncouth
      crude
      rough
      uncultured
      uncultivated
      unsophisticated
      illiterate
      uneducated
      philistine
      common
      ordinary
      low-born
      plebeian
      baseborn
      tinselly
      Opposite:
      tasteful
      restrained
      genteel
      decorous
     
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    What is a vulgar adjective?
    Definition of vulgar adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary not having or showing good taste; not polite, pleasant or well behaved synonym coarse, in bad taste She found their laughter and noisy games coarse and rather vulgar. She gave a rather vulgar laugh. Want to learn more? rude and likely to offend synonym crude

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    What is vulgar etiquette?
    From the Latin vulgus, meaning "the common people," vulgar is an adjective that can describe anything from the sexually explicit to the merely ugly and crass. A crude joke could be considered vulgar, as could a breach of etiquette at a dinner party.

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    Why is vulgar considered inappropriate?
    Terms that are labeled Vulgar in this dictionary are considered inappropriate in many circumstances because of their association with a taboo subject. Major taboo subjects in English-speaking countries are sex and excretion and the parts of the body associated with those functions. See common.

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    Was the song 'Don't be vulgar' a vulgar song?
    The lyrics were vulgar. There's a good deal of vulgarity. If you describe a person or their behaviour as vulgar, you mean that they lack taste or behave rudely. He was a vulgar old man, but he never swore in front of a woman. 'Don't be vulgar,' she reprimanded. It's his vulgarity that I can't take.

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