Sentence example with the word 'vulgarism'

vulgarism

bad taste, camp, cumbrousness, ill-balanced sentences, indecorousness, lack of finish, ponderousness, sesquipedalianism, tastelessness, unfittingness, vernacularism

Definition n. an offensive or indecent word or phrase

Last update: September 13, 2015


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He winked at Paul and drew from his back pocket a plug of chewing-tobacco, a vulgarism forbidden in the Babbitt home.   [Please select]

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"Up to anything" is the nearest equivalent to [Greek: panourgos], but too nearly approaches to a colloquial vulgarism.   [Please select]

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And remember one thing, George: whatever she says to you, you must take, to use a vulgarism, with a grain of salt.   [Please select]

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