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    vulgarity


    1. A Socialist/Marxist showcasing ―prime time‖ examples of ―crass commercialism‖ in all its material ―decadence‖ for the benefit of his acolytes need only draw their attention to the ludicrous vulgarity of (television) game shows


    2. Was this woman, whose vulgarity and consciousness of money oozed out of her at every pore, actually asking him to give her Una--his dear little wistful Una with Cecilia's own dark-blue eyes--the child whom the dying mother had clasped to her heart after the other children had been led weeping from the room


    3. Walter shuddered--not so much from fear of the threat as from repulsion over the ugliness and vulgarity of it


    4. Everywhere huge advertising hoardings, vulgarity, commercial activity


    5. The vulgarity of the world rests on the fact that it lives for nothing, and this brings tears to every person who has turned to God


    6. Her severity made the house a redoubt of old customs in a town convulsed by the vulgarity with which the outsiders squandered their easy fortunes


    7. Meme was bothered by the vulgarity of that


    8. In the bitter years ahead, the German people would look back at this time and wonder if that gigantic dream with its loud mouthed vulgarity, and jack booted cruelty could conceivably have taken place


    9. that speech and press should be conducted in gentlemanly fashion, without having to suffer vulgarity, tirades of hate, or Hitleresque speeches


    10. Why blame the lesser mortals for their corrupt ways; if they were to remain upright and teach philosophy at home, won’t the children of the nouveau-riche teach their kids some lesson in inferiority complex; so the rich man’s vulgarity has become the poor man’s alibi to be corrupt

    11. Humility is simplicity exchanged with vulgarity, every man is to be respected as an absolute, it is a crime to lower man through some external purpose


    12. vulgarity of its hording


    13. “And Charity's nu name is Greend; for the vulgarity of her charity is the End of Green Greed


    14. “Is that what you were thinking as you were finger fucking me in front of an audience?” she said, surprised at her own vulgarity


    15. Terrible to be stirred not only to unchristianity but to vulgarity


    16. ” Chance jerked at her sudden vulgarity


    17. On the crassness and vulgarity of Eve's oversize flesh, on her manipulations and lingual pulsations but strangely, his mind drifted elsewhere


    18. At times there was a touch of vulgarity to it


    19. It gave that face a trace of vulgarity


    20. The rudeness of the slogans that were yelled grated him by their vulgarity, the lack of sportsmanship and lack of the slightest generosity towards the losers

    21. With the rather short hair we had adopted, her exotic, sensual look and the touch of vulgarity, she had a face you could not easily look away from


    22. Motive of torture cancels out the reality felt HIS MIND RAZOR-BACKED - HIS VULGARITY A WORSHIP


    23. seen as an underground display of violence, vulgarity and disgust? She explained that


    24. Can anything be compared with the horror of that? The vulgarity! The


    25. "I am not particularly interested in anyone's opinion," Svidrigailov answered, dryly and even with a shade of haughtiness, "and therefore why not be vulgar at times when vulgarity is such a convenient cloak for our climate


    26. That is the body of Chrysostom, who was unrivalled in wit, unequalled in courtesy, unapproached in gentle bearing, a phoenix in friendship, generous without limit, grave without arrogance, gay without vulgarity, and, in short, first in all that constitutes goodness and second to none in all that makes up misfortune


    27. But at breakfast (she shared rooms with a teacher), when the butter was smeared about the plate, and the prongs of the forks were clotted with old egg yolk, she revised these visions violently; was, in truth, very cross; was losing her complexion, as Margery Jackson told her, bringing the whole thing down (as she laced her stout boots) to a level of mother-wit, vulgarity, and sentiment, for she had loved too; and been a fool


    28. vivacity danced in their eyes, I was not easily disgusted by the vulgarity which


    29. Marianne, who had never much toleration for any thing like impertinence, vulgarity, inferiority of parts, or even difference of taste from herself, was at this time particularly ill-disposed, from the state of her spirits, to be pleased with the Miss Steeles, or to encourage their advances; and to the invariable coldness of her behaviour towards them, which checked every endeavour at intimacy on their side, Elinor principally attributed that preference of herself which soon became evident in the manners of both, but especially of Lucy, who missed no opportunity of engaging her in conversation, or of striving to improve their acquaintance by an easy and frank communication of her sentiments


    30. She madly wanted her little brother of four to let her swathe him and stifle him in her love; she went to church reverently, with bowed head, and quivered in anguish from the vulgarity of the other choir-girls and from the common-sounding voice of the curate; she fought with her brothers, whom she considered brutal louts; and she held not her father in too high esteem because he did not carry any mystical ideals cherished in his heart, but only wanted to have as easy a time as he could, and his meals when he was ready for them

    31. There is a battle and they gain the day, and then modesty, which they call silliness, is ignominiously thrust into exile by them, and temperance, which they nickname unmanliness, is trampled in the mire and cast forth; they persuade men that moderation and orderly expenditure are vulgarity and meanness, and so, by the help of a rabble of evil appetites, they drive them beyond the border


    32. —You're the essence of vulgarity, she in gliding said


    33. Our two inimitable drolls did a roaring trade with their broadsheets among lovers of the comedy element and nobody who has a corner in his heart for real Irish fun without vulgarity will grudge them their hardearnedpennies


    34. merest vulgarity, something that had been done a thousand times over


    35. Fiercely whiskered and grave, a shade less supple in his walk, the vigour and symmetry of his powerful limbs lost in the vulgarity of a brown tweed suit, made by Jews in the slums of London, and sold by the clothing department of the Compania Anzani, Captain Fidanza was seen in the streets of Sulaco attending to his business, as usual, that trip


    36. And here he was now, stepping out of an elegant carriage and handing down a bright in color to the point of vulgarity but nevertheless her eyes went over the outfit woman dressed within an inch of her life


    37. More even than the work of the great architects, I loved buildings that grew silently with the centuries, catching and keeping the best of each generation, while time curbed the artist's pride and the Philistine's vulgarity, and repaired the clumsiness of the dull workman


    38. With the Republicans in the political saddle the town entered into an era of waste and ostentation, with the trappings of refinement thinly veneering the vice and vulgarity beneath


    39. as for the recently impoverished Atlanta people, they could starve and drop in the On the crest of this wave of vulgarity, Scarlett rode triumphantly, newly a bride, dashingly pretty in her fine clothes, with Rhett’s money solidly behind her


    40. Can anything be compared with the horror of that? The vulgarity! The abjectness! I understand the 'prophet' with his sabre, on his steed: Allah commands and 'trembling' creation must obey! The 'prophet' is right, he is right when he sets a battery across the street and blows up the innocent and the guilty without deigning to explain! It's for you to obey, trembling creation, and not to have desires, for that's not for you!

    41. "I am not particularly interested in anyone's opinion," Svidrigaïlov answered, dryly and even with a shade of haughtiness, "and therefore why not be vulgar at times when vulgarity is such a convenient cloak for our climate


    42. He did not mean to think of furniture at present; but whenever he did so it was to be feared that neither biology nor schemes of reform would lift him above the vulgarity of feeling that there would be an incompatibility in his furniture not being of the best


    43. The tinge of unpretentious, inoffensive vulgarity in Mrs


    44. “Pardon the vulgarity


    45. Then he recalled the coarseness and bluntness of her thoughts and the vulgarity of the expressions that were natural to her, though she had been brought up in the most aristocratic circles


    46. They came to study the dreadful vulgarity of this imaginary Mass Man they pretend to hate


    47. These opinions he delivered in a few words, in a quiet, low voice; and added, after a pause, in the tone of a man little accustomed to expansive comment, “Rather an unusual physiognomy; certainly, not indicative of vulgarity or degradation


    48. Despite the perpetual rain, the sordid merchants, and the Homeric vulgarity of its carriage drivers, she would always remember Paris as the most beautiful city in the world, not because of what it was or was not in reality, but because it was linked to the memory of her happiest years


    49. Despite the vulgarity of the words, for many years afterward Dr


    50. We shall probably see much to wish altered in her, and must prepare ourselves for gross ignorance, some meanness of opinions, and very distressing vulgarity of manner; but these are not incurable faults; nor, I trust, can they be dangerous for her associates










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    Synonyms for "vulgarity"

    coarseness commonness grossness raunch vulgarism vulgarity crudeness impropriety indecency immodesty cursing obscenity impudence rudeness swearing

    "vulgarity" definitions

    the quality of lacking taste and refinement