Vulgarism

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  • noun. Vulgarity.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A crudely indecent word or phrase; an obscenity.
  • noun. A word, phrase, or manner of expression used chiefly by uneducated people.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Coarseness, rudeness, or grossness of manners; vulgarity; commonness.
  • noun. A phrase or expression used only in common colloquial, especially in coarse, speech.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Grossness; rudeness; vulgarity.
  • noun. A vulgar phrase or expression.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A word or term that is considered offensive or vulgar.
  • noun. A spelling, word, or phrase used in common speech that is considered improper or incorrect for formal communication.
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  • noun. the quality of lacking taste and refinement
  • noun. an offensive or indecent word or phrase
    • Word Usage
    "To use a vulgarism which is stripped of its vulgarity if employed reverently, as I would do it -- we know where to have Him."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    inelegance  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    animality  aukwardness  barbarousness  bloodthirstiness  ebriety  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Babbittry  Gothicism  bad taste  barbarism  barbarousness  
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