vulgar (adj.)

  1. 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

    [ Syn: coarse , common , rough-cut , uncouth ]

  2. 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

    [ Syn: common , plebeian , unwashed ]

  3. 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

    [ Syn: common , vernacular ]

  4. 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

    [ Syn: crude , earthy , gross ]

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