Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: vulgar
IPA transcription: [v'ʌlɡɚ]
Pronunciations of vulgar
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: coarse, common, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar
    Meaning: 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"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich"
Usage examples
  • Horribly vulgar!
  • "It's vulgar to do any other way.
  • He sacrificed the vulgar prizes of life
  • To raise the dress on both sides, and with both hands, is vulgar.
  • You belong with the legions of toil, with all that is low, and vulgar, and unbeautiful.
  • In this book you find the very life; the most vulgar prose, and the most exquisite poetry.
  • You know the falsehood of the whole set of vulgar stories that you have put into circulation against him.
  • I believe you care more for that odious vulgar woman down-stairs than you do for anybody else in the world."
  • So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand.
  • This is a mistake, gentlemen, and I can with relation to this point, reveal to you what my sex prefers to these vulgar eulogiums.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Sex and sexuality in speculative fiction, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Naked Came the Stranger, License CC BY-SA 4.0