Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being vulgar; vulgarity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being vulgar.
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Examples
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There is then in the structure of his words something tragic and something comic, something blustering and something low, an obscurity, a vulgarness, a turgidness, and a strutting, with a nauseous prattling and fooling.
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"You're the most rudest boy ever I see," cried Madame Duval, angrily: "but, I promise you, I'll tell your father what you say, for I've no notion of such vulgarness."
Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World 1778
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The Chancellor has behaved with his usual, or, rather greater vulgarness and blunders.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3 Horace Walpole 1757
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Sorry for the vulgarness but I am just following Dick Cheney’s “lead”.
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"but, I promise you, I'll tell your father what you say, for I've no notion of such vulgarness."
Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World Fanny Burney 1796
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Madame Duval, angrily: “but, I promise you, I’ll tell your father what you say, for I’ve no notion of such vulgarness.”
Evelina 1778
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