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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
vulgar
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a coarse/vulgar expression (=one that is rude)
▪ He came out with some vulgar expressions that I couldn’t possibly repeat.
vulgar fraction
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ Next, the things ordinary people like are dismissed as vulgar.
▪ Vulgar, but not as vulgar as Louis Vuitton, thought Sherman.
▪ Max Weinreich describes the level of usage as vulgar.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Vulgar fashions filled the store windows.
vulgar language
▪ a vulgar display of wealth
▪ He ruined the evening with his vulgar talk about women and about how much he could drink.
▪ Norman was a vulgar, ignorant man.
▪ The article describes the vulgar excesses of the newly rich.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Carew's immediate response was that it was garish and vulgar, like Durkin himself.
▪ Crowe then had the vulgar audacity to offer me a pitiful ten quid if I revealed the manager's name.
▪ It was an especially vulgar affair.
▪ Its vulgar images seduce many people.
▪ The jokes are expected to be vulgar.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vulgar

Vulgar \Vul"gar\, n. [Cf. F. vulgaire.]

  1. One of the common people; a vulgar person. [Obs.]

    These vile vulgars are extremely proud.
    --Chapman.

  2. The vernacular, or common language. [Obs.]

Vulgar

Vulgar \Vul"gar\, a. [L. vulgaris, from vulgus the multitude, the common people; of uncertain origin: cf. F. vulgaire. Cf. Divulge.]

  1. Of or pertaining to the mass, or multitude, of people; common; general; ordinary; public; hence, in general use; vernacular. ``As common as any the most vulgar thing to sense. '' -- Shak.

    Things vulgar, and well-weighed, scarce worth the praise.
    --Milton.

    It might be more useful to the English reader . . . to write in our vulgar language.
    --Bp. Fell.

    The mechanical process of multiplying books had brought the New Testament in the vulgar tongue within the reach of every class.
    --Bancroft.

  2. Belonging or relating to the common people, as distinguished from the cultivated or educated; pertaining to common life; plebeian; not select or distinguished; hence, sometimes, of little or no value. ``Like the vulgar sort of market men.''
    --Shak.

    Men who have passed all their time in low and vulgar life.
    --Addison.

    In reading an account of a battle, we follow the hero with our whole attention, but seldom reflect on the vulgar heaps of slaughter.
    --Rambler.

  3. Hence, lacking cultivation or refinement; rustic; boorish; also, offensive to good taste or refined feelings; low; coarse; mean; base; as, vulgar men, minds, language, or manners.

    Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
    --Shak.

    Vulgar fraction. (Arith.) See under Fraction.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
vulgar

late 14c., "common, ordinary," from Latin vulgaris, volgaris "of or pertaining to the common people, common, vulgar, low, mean," from vulgus "the common people, multitude, crowd, throng," perhaps from a PIE root *wel- "to crowd, throng" (cognates: Sanskrit vargah "division, group," Greek eilein "to press, throng," Middle Breton gwal'ch "abundance," Welsh gwala "sufficiency, enough") [not in Watkins]. Meaning "coarse, low, ill-bred" is first recorded 1640s, probably from earlier use (with reference to people) with meaning "belonging to the ordinary class" (1530). Related: Vulgarly.

Wiktionary
vulgar

a. debased, uncouth, distasteful, obscene.

WordNet
vulgar
  1. adj. 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: coarse, crude, earthy, gross]

Wikipedia
Vulgar

Vulgar is a Latin word meaning "common" or "pertaining to ordinary people", and can refer to:

Vulgar (album)

Vulgar (stylized VULGAR) is the fourth studio album released by Dir en grey on September 10, 2003 in Japan and on February 21, 2006 in Europe. A limited edition containing an additional DVD was also released. It featured the video of the song "Obscure", albeit a censored version (the uncensored clip was later released on the Average Psycho DVD, and has since become notorious and earned the song huge popularity). Vulgar is the first Dir en grey release not to feature individual credits for the music, though the accompanying singles featured individual credits.

Vulgar (film)

Vulgar is a 2000 comedy-drama film written and directed by Bryan Johnson, produced by Kevin Smith's View Askew Productions, and features multiple actors from the View Askewniverse (films sharing the same characters and location of New Jersey including Clerks, Clerks II, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma). The film is the tale of the mascot, "Vulgar", featured in the opening of Smith's debut Clerks. Though not a Kevin Smith film, it stars many actors often in View Askew Productions (such as Smith himself as a gay TV executive, Jason Mewes as a faulty gun dealer, director Bryan Johnson in a supporting role as Syd, Will's one and seemingly only friend, and Brian O'Halloran as the lead Will/Vulgar).

Usage examples of "vulgar".

Meanwhile, in his spare time, Bahadur was seeking to improve his English by concentrating on vulgar and profane expressions.

The count took her in his arms, and caressing her in the tenderest manner begged her to do him this favour, not so much for the twenty-five Louis, as to convince me that he was above vulgar prejudices.

Gaius Marius in all the vulgar ostentation of a gold-and-purple Chian outfit.

Then was created the jargon of alchemy, a continual deception for the vulgar herd, greedy of gold, and a living language for the true disciples of Hermes alone.

She would have been perfect for Yossarian, a debauched, coarse, vulgar, amoral, appetizing slattern whom he had longed for and idolized for months.

She then expatiated with equal success upon the consequences of indulged superstition, and the indispensable necessity of endeavouring to liberate the mind from the shackles of vulgar prejudices, which, she concluded with remarking, was considered by the discerning as the irrefragable testimony of an exalted mind.

His fragile expectations would inevitably dampen as she attacked her salad, flickered as she swallowed garlic escarole with vulgar relish, guttered with the entree, and died over brandy and cheese.

Mechanical Materialism, or Vulgar Evolutionism, which he considered to constitute a contradiction within the very fabric of the transcendent metaphysical Taoism of the past.

No, it did not seem to him possible that such a man had ended in this vulgar fashion, carried away by a wave, drowned in the floods, a few hundred feet from a shore.

There was consequently great excitement and the betting and the bowling of the laughter rose to Furber with such a ring of vulgar, brazen joy that he rushed in anger from his garden, as pale-eyed and black as he could make himself, and flew down among them to stalk stiff-legged like a jackdaw, clacking futilely.

Leibnitz will show you that the architecture of the Louvre is less learned than that of a snail: the eternal geometer has unrolled his transcendent spirals on the shell of the mollusc that you, like the vulgar profane, know only seasoned with spinach and Dutch cheese.

This gerontocracy has frozen it in time: more than anywhere else here are the vulgar luxuries of Edwardian cheesecake.

As he bent over, lacing his boots, there was a certain vulgar gusto in his movement that divided him from the reserved, watchful rest of the family.

This man, who owed his high fortune to his talents, would, perhaps, have lived and died unknown if he had kept his name of Tognolo, a truly vulgar one.

After telling me of his feats with a freedom which chewed her exemption from vulgar prejudice, she informed me that she wished her cousin to live in the same house, and had already obtained M.