Definition of vulgar in English:

vulgar

adjective ˈvʌlɡəˈvəlɡər

1Lacking sophistication or good taste.
粗俗的，庸俗的
a vulgar check suit
俗气的格子西装。
Example sentencesExamples
- Just as displaying great wealth is vulgar, so is excessive cheapness.
- I do have a guilty secret - I watch one of the most trashy, vulgar programmes on British TV.
- Looking out on Europe from the sheltered perspective of his home in Basle, Burckhardt deplored the arrival of mass society with its vulgar tastes, turbulent politics, and unlimited capacity for violence.
- Quite apart from the serious ethical questions surrounding the killing of animals for their fur, mink fell out of favour as it became associated with the vulgar side of wealth.
- The Ipswich Express said his sermons were ‘Redolent of bad taste, vulgar, and theatrical.’
- Britain is a cultural treasure house, a center for entertainment from the most sophisticated to the very vulgar indeed.
- Many thought the painting vulgar and tawdry in its intention but many more adopted it as a contemporary religious icon and so it became one of the most popular paintings in the civic collection.
- Characterized by an awkward blending of old and new architectural styles, it appealed to the general population, but sophisticates found it vulgar and ugly.
- Yet it continues to be maligned by ‘proper’ musicians and cultural sophisticates as the epitome of vulgar kitsch.
- In neither case, of course, was art intended to be reduced to something vulgar or common - a mere commodity, for example, or propaganda.
- We blame them for violence in society, vulgar tastes and a host of other ills.
- His anecdotal scenes featuring comic urchins were considered vulgar by critics but appealed to wealthy industrialists.
- He was crude, vulgar, tacky and brilliantly funny.
- I find the Metropolis vulgar, myself, but my business requires me to live here.
- Selznick is often portrayed as a vulgar showman, catering to the lowest taste of the great American public.
- For example, in Japan fifty years ago it was considered vulgar to swim in a swimming suit but now bikinis are the norm.
- Columnist John Blunt questioned whether such stunts classed as entertainment, when in fact they showed rather poor, even vulgar, taste.
- Manufacturers and importers are confident that there is now a market in India for what are called ‘luxury goods’, but are better described as products that are a vulgar display of extreme wealth.
- It's almost as common and vulgar as chewing gum while you're serving customers.
- There is some truth to this image, which reflects a popular sense that wealth is vulgar.
Synonyms
tasteless, gross, crass, unrefined, tawdry, ostentatious, flamboyant, over-elaborate, overdone, showy, flashy, gaudy, garish, brassy, kitsch, tinselly, flaunting, glaring, brash, loud, harsh
informal flash, tacky, over the top, OTT, glitzy, swanky
impolite, ill-mannered, unmannerly, indecorous, unseemly, ill-bred, boorish, low, low-minded, gross, uncouth, crude, rough
uncultured, uncultivated, unsophisticated, unrefined
illiterate, uneducated, philistine
common, ordinary, low-born, plebeian
informal yobbish, loutish, plebby, ignorant
archaic baseborn
2Making explicit and offensive reference to sex or bodily functions; coarse and rude.
下流的；粗俗下流的；粗鄙的
a vulgar joke
粗鄙的笑话。
Example sentencesExamples
- The most common forms of abuse were much less sophisticated and amounted to little more than vulgar name-calling.
- Sexually explicit scenes and vulgar language are sliced off to make the feature films more palatable to all age groups.
- However, as I was reading the March / April 2003 issue I was surprised and disappointed at the appearance of vulgar language and explicit references.
- Basically, we advocate discussions within the framework of the law and discourage rumors, abuse and vulgar, offensive stuff.
- The skit was getting more and more vulgar and explicit, the volume was turned up far too loud, and it became evident to me that my driver was playing a prank.
- She was besieged by vulgar and offensive propositions, her home was stalked and her work life affected by obscene callers.
- I brace myself for something offensive or vulgar or just inane enough to cause me to stifle a laugh.
- There is no question that personal attacks should be removed, but what about rude or vulgar comments?
- As if this was not bad enough, the article was accompanied by a vulgar colour photograph of the winning side in various stages of undress.
- Once vulgar words are commonplace in the papers and the television, there's no going back - and public life just gets cruder and cruder.
- Political correctness has certainly not hindered my ability to be vulgar or offensive.
- No show that I can remember has plumbed such offensive depths in vulgar and derogatory language.
- His reputation is based upon offerings that are simply offensive and vulgar graffiti, lacking in humor, without wit, and devoid of intelligent satire.
- There is not even a single vulgar or explicit scene in the entire film.
- The poet who was so courtly and gentle in his verse could be coarse and vulgar in his everyday speech.
- Our engineers were fooling about in the studio singing vulgar songs and making rude remarks in front of the microphone.
- Rather than being incisive or challenging, they're merely vulgar and offensive.
- So they do and say things that are just vulgar and rude.
- Seldom have we witnessed a more shameless display of rude and vulgar behavior towards an invited guest.
- At its mildest, the consequence is vulgar language and rude behavior that diminish the quality of our day-to-day public interactions.
Synonyms
rude, indecent, indelicate, offensive, distasteful, obnoxious, risqué, suggestive, racy, earthy, off colour, colourful, coarse, crude, ribald, Rabelaisian, bawdy, obscene, lewd, salacious, licentious, vile, depraved, sordid, smutty, dirty, filthy, pornographic, X-rated, scatological
profane, foul, foul-mouthed, blasphemous, abusive, scurrilous
informal sleazy, porno, porn, raunchy, naughty, blue, steamy, spicy, locker-room
British informal fruity, saucy, near the knuckle, close to the bone
North American informal gamy
euphemistic adult
rare concupiscent
3dated Characteristic of or belonging to ordinary people.
〈旧〉平民的；属于平民的
Example sentencesExamples
- At this time Jerome had translated the Hebrew Bible into Latin and it came to be known as the Vulgate, for the vulgar, that is, the ordinary people.
- Heckerling's most well-known films link female characters with humour that belongs to a tradition of vulgar or low comedy.
- Thasos passed measures to prevent wine-shops becoming bars, while the fact that taverns were so popular in Byzantium and Athens revealed the essentially vulgar character of democratic societies.
- The most likely explanation, however, is that Nushu derives from a simplification of vulgar forms of Chinese characters used in handwriting.

Derivatives

vulgarly

adverb ˈvʌlɡəli

You had to wear something much worse - the Eton jacket, vulgarly known as the ‘bum freezer’, which was essentially a tail suit without the tails.
Example sentencesExamples
- You hardly hear it now, but in 1979 it was a sneering term for a person who has acquired wealth recently, and is vulgarly ostentatious or lacking in social graces.
- He plays the piano ‘badly and vulgarly,’ and what is worse, he plays Grieg.
- In 1923, Ms Reese-Jarvis filed a lawsuit against two businessmen who, she felt, were vulgarly capitalising on Mother's Day and launched a placard and pamphlet protest.
- On the last point, Decter returns to questions of gender relations, as they are vulgarly called, a subject to which she has made many valuable contributions over the years.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin vulgaris, from vulgus 'common people'. The original senses were 'used in ordinary calculations' (surviving in vulgar fraction) and 'in ordinary use, used by the people' (surviving in vulgar tongue).

Latin vulgus ‘the common people’ is the source of vulgar. The original senses, from the late Middle Ages, were ‘used in ordinary calculations’, which survives in vulgar fraction, and ‘in ordinary use, used by the people’, which survives in vulgar tongue. The sense ‘coarse, uncultured’ dates from the mid 17th century. Divulge (Late Middle English) is from the same root, from Latin divulgare ‘to spread among the people’, hence to make generally known.

Rhymes

mulga

Definition of vulgar in US English:

vulgar

adjectiveˈvəlɡərˈvəlɡər

1Lacking sophistication or good taste; unrefined.
粗俗的，庸俗的
the vulgar trappings of wealth
Example sentencesExamples
- Selznick is often portrayed as a vulgar showman, catering to the lowest taste of the great American public.
- In neither case, of course, was art intended to be reduced to something vulgar or common - a mere commodity, for example, or propaganda.
- Manufacturers and importers are confident that there is now a market in India for what are called ‘luxury goods’, but are better described as products that are a vulgar display of extreme wealth.
- There is some truth to this image, which reflects a popular sense that wealth is vulgar.
- Characterized by an awkward blending of old and new architectural styles, it appealed to the general population, but sophisticates found it vulgar and ugly.
- Columnist John Blunt questioned whether such stunts classed as entertainment, when in fact they showed rather poor, even vulgar, taste.
- For example, in Japan fifty years ago it was considered vulgar to swim in a swimming suit but now bikinis are the norm.
- Britain is a cultural treasure house, a center for entertainment from the most sophisticated to the very vulgar indeed.
- Yet it continues to be maligned by ‘proper’ musicians and cultural sophisticates as the epitome of vulgar kitsch.
- I do have a guilty secret - I watch one of the most trashy, vulgar programmes on British TV.
- Many thought the painting vulgar and tawdry in its intention but many more adopted it as a contemporary religious icon and so it became one of the most popular paintings in the civic collection.
- It's almost as common and vulgar as chewing gum while you're serving customers.
- Looking out on Europe from the sheltered perspective of his home in Basle, Burckhardt deplored the arrival of mass society with its vulgar tastes, turbulent politics, and unlimited capacity for violence.
- I find the Metropolis vulgar, myself, but my business requires me to live here.
- He was crude, vulgar, tacky and brilliantly funny.
- The Ipswich Express said his sermons were ‘Redolent of bad taste, vulgar, and theatrical.’
- Just as displaying great wealth is vulgar, so is excessive cheapness.
- We blame them for violence in society, vulgar tastes and a host of other ills.
- Quite apart from the serious ethical questions surrounding the killing of animals for their fur, mink fell out of favour as it became associated with the vulgar side of wealth.
- His anecdotal scenes featuring comic urchins were considered vulgar by critics but appealed to wealthy industrialists.
Synonyms
tasteless, gross, crass, unrefined, tawdry, ostentatious, flamboyant, over-elaborate, overdone, showy, flashy, gaudy, garish, brassy, kitsch, tinselly, flaunting, glaring, brash, loud, harsh
impolite, ill-mannered, unmannerly, indecorous, unseemly, ill-bred, boorish, low, low-minded, gross, uncouth, crude, rough
1. 1.1 Making explicit and offensive reference to sex or bodily functions; coarse and rude.
  下流的；粗俗下流的；粗鄙的
  a vulgar joke
  粗鄙的笑话。
  Example sentencesExamples
  She was besieged by vulgar and offensive propositions, her home was stalked and her work life affected by obscene callers.
  The skit was getting more and more vulgar and explicit, the volume was turned up far too loud, and it became evident to me that my driver was playing a prank.
  Rather than being incisive or challenging, they're merely vulgar and offensive.
  The most common forms of abuse were much less sophisticated and amounted to little more than vulgar name-calling.
  Once vulgar words are commonplace in the papers and the television, there's no going back - and public life just gets cruder and cruder.
  At its mildest, the consequence is vulgar language and rude behavior that diminish the quality of our day-to-day public interactions.
  There is no question that personal attacks should be removed, but what about rude or vulgar comments?
  The poet who was so courtly and gentle in his verse could be coarse and vulgar in his everyday speech.
  Seldom have we witnessed a more shameless display of rude and vulgar behavior towards an invited guest.
  So they do and say things that are just vulgar and rude.
  Basically, we advocate discussions within the framework of the law and discourage rumors, abuse and vulgar, offensive stuff.
  Our engineers were fooling about in the studio singing vulgar songs and making rude remarks in front of the microphone.
  No show that I can remember has plumbed such offensive depths in vulgar and derogatory language.
  There is not even a single vulgar or explicit scene in the entire film.
  His reputation is based upon offerings that are simply offensive and vulgar graffiti, lacking in humor, without wit, and devoid of intelligent satire.
  I brace myself for something offensive or vulgar or just inane enough to cause me to stifle a laugh.
  Political correctness has certainly not hindered my ability to be vulgar or offensive.
  Sexually explicit scenes and vulgar language are sliced off to make the feature films more palatable to all age groups.
  However, as I was reading the March / April 2003 issue I was surprised and disappointed at the appearance of vulgar language and explicit references.
  As if this was not bad enough, the article was accompanied by a vulgar colour photograph of the winning side in various stages of undress.
  Synonyms
  rude, indecent, indelicate, offensive, distasteful, obnoxious, risqué, suggestive, racy, earthy, off colour, colourful, coarse, crude, ribald, rabelaisian, bawdy, obscene, lewd, salacious, licentious, vile, depraved, sordid, smutty, dirty, filthy, pornographic, x-rated, scatological
2. 1.2dated Characteristic of or belonging to the masses.
  〈旧〉平民的；属于平民的
  Example sentencesExamples
  Thasos passed measures to prevent wine-shops becoming bars, while the fact that taverns were so popular in Byzantium and Athens revealed the essentially vulgar character of democratic societies.
  Heckerling's most well-known films link female characters with humour that belongs to a tradition of vulgar or low comedy.
  At this time Jerome had translated the Hebrew Bible into Latin and it came to be known as the Vulgate, for the vulgar, that is, the ordinary people.
  The most likely explanation, however, is that Nushu derives from a simplification of vulgar forms of Chinese characters used in handwriting.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin vulgaris, from vulgus ‘common people’. The original senses were ‘used in ordinary calculations’ (surviving in vulgar fraction) and ‘in ordinary use, used by the people’ (surviving in vulgar tongue).

词汇	vulgar
释义	Definition of vulgar in English: vulgar adjective ˈvʌlɡəˈvəlɡər 1Lacking sophistication or good taste. 粗俗的，庸俗的 a vulgar check suit 俗气的格子西装。 Example sentencesExamples Just as displaying great wealth is vulgar, so is excessive cheapness. I do have a guilty secret - I watch one of the most trashy, vulgar programmes on British TV. Looking out on Europe from the sheltered perspective of his home in Basle, Burckhardt deplored the arrival of mass society with its vulgar tastes, turbulent politics, and unlimited capacity for violence. Quite apart from the serious ethical questions surrounding the killing of animals for their fur, mink fell out of favour as it became associated with the vulgar side of wealth. The Ipswich Express said his sermons were ‘Redolent of bad taste, vulgar, and theatrical.’ Britain is a cultural treasure house, a center for entertainment from the most sophisticated to the very vulgar indeed. Many thought the painting vulgar and tawdry in its intention but many more adopted it as a contemporary religious icon and so it became one of the most popular paintings in the civic collection. Characterized by an awkward blending of old and new architectural styles, it appealed to the general population, but sophisticates found it vulgar and ugly. Yet it continues to be maligned by ‘proper’ musicians and cultural sophisticates as the epitome of vulgar kitsch. In neither case, of course, was art intended to be reduced to something vulgar or common - a mere commodity, for example, or propaganda. We blame them for violence in society, vulgar tastes and a host of other ills. His anecdotal scenes featuring comic urchins were considered vulgar by critics but appealed to wealthy industrialists. He was crude, vulgar, tacky and brilliantly funny. I find the Metropolis vulgar, myself, but my business requires me to live here. Selznick is often portrayed as a vulgar showman, catering to the lowest taste of the great American public. For example, in Japan fifty years ago it was considered vulgar to swim in a swimming suit but now bikinis are the norm. Columnist John Blunt questioned whether such stunts classed as entertainment, when in fact they showed rather poor, even vulgar, taste. Manufacturers and importers are confident that there is now a market in India for what are called ‘luxury goods’, but are better described as products that are a vulgar display of extreme wealth. It's almost as common and vulgar as chewing gum while you're serving customers. There is some truth to this image, which reflects a popular sense that wealth is vulgar. Synonyms tasteless, gross, crass, unrefined, tawdry, ostentatious, flamboyant, over-elaborate, overdone, showy, flashy, gaudy, garish, brassy, kitsch, tinselly, flaunting, glaring, brash, loud, harsh informal flash, tacky, over the top, OTT, glitzy, swanky impolite, ill-mannered, unmannerly, indecorous, unseemly, ill-bred, boorish, low, low-minded, gross, uncouth, crude, rough uncultured, uncultivated, unsophisticated, unrefined illiterate, uneducated, philistine common, ordinary, low-born, plebeian informal yobbish, loutish, plebby, ignorant archaic baseborn 2Making explicit and offensive reference to sex or bodily functions; coarse and rude. 下流的；粗俗下流的；粗鄙的 a vulgar joke 粗鄙的笑话。 Example sentencesExamples The most common forms of abuse were much less sophisticated and amounted to little more than vulgar name-calling. Sexually explicit scenes and vulgar language are sliced off to make the feature films more palatable to all age groups. However, as I was reading the March / April 2003 issue I was surprised and disappointed at the appearance of vulgar language and explicit references. Basically, we advocate discussions within the framework of the law and discourage rumors, abuse and vulgar, offensive stuff. The skit was getting more and more vulgar and explicit, the volume was turned up far too loud, and it became evident to me that my driver was playing a prank. She was besieged by vulgar and offensive propositions, her home was stalked and her work life affected by obscene callers. I brace myself for something offensive or vulgar or just inane enough to cause me to stifle a laugh. There is no question that personal attacks should be removed, but what about rude or vulgar comments? As if this was not bad enough, the article was accompanied by a vulgar colour photograph of the winning side in various stages of undress. Once vulgar words are commonplace in the papers and the television, there's no going back - and public life just gets cruder and cruder. Political correctness has certainly not hindered my ability to be vulgar or offensive. No show that I can remember has plumbed such offensive depths in vulgar and derogatory language. His reputation is based upon offerings that are simply offensive and vulgar graffiti, lacking in humor, without wit, and devoid of intelligent satire. There is not even a single vulgar or explicit scene in the entire film. The poet who was so courtly and gentle in his verse could be coarse and vulgar in his everyday speech. Our engineers were fooling about in the studio singing vulgar songs and making rude remarks in front of the microphone. Rather than being incisive or challenging, they're merely vulgar and offensive. So they do and say things that are just vulgar and rude. Seldom have we witnessed a more shameless display of rude and vulgar behavior towards an invited guest. At its mildest, the consequence is vulgar language and rude behavior that diminish the quality of our day-to-day public interactions. Synonyms rude, indecent, indelicate, offensive, distasteful, obnoxious, risqué, suggestive, racy, earthy, off colour, colourful, coarse, crude, ribald, Rabelaisian, bawdy, obscene, lewd, salacious, licentious, vile, depraved, sordid, smutty, dirty, filthy, pornographic, X-rated, scatological profane, foul, foul-mouthed, blasphemous, abusive, scurrilous informal sleazy, porno, porn, raunchy, naughty, blue, steamy, spicy, locker-room British informal fruity, saucy, near the knuckle, close to the bone North American informal gamy euphemistic adult rare concupiscent 3dated Characteristic of or belonging to ordinary people. 〈旧〉平民的；属于平民的 Example sentencesExamples At this time Jerome had translated the Hebrew Bible into Latin and it came to be known as the Vulgate, for the vulgar, that is, the ordinary people. Heckerling's most well-known films link female characters with humour that belongs to a tradition of vulgar or low comedy. Thasos passed measures to prevent wine-shops becoming bars, while the fact that taverns were so popular in Byzantium and Athens revealed the essentially vulgar character of democratic societies. The most likely explanation, however, is that Nushu derives from a simplification of vulgar forms of Chinese characters used in handwriting. Derivatives vulgarly adverb ˈvʌlɡəli You had to wear something much worse - the Eton jacket, vulgarly known as the ‘bum freezer’, which was essentially a tail suit without the tails. Example sentencesExamples You hardly hear it now, but in 1979 it was a sneering term for a person who has acquired wealth recently, and is vulgarly ostentatious or lacking in social graces. He plays the piano ‘badly and vulgarly,’ and what is worse, he plays Grieg. In 1923, Ms Reese-Jarvis filed a lawsuit against two businessmen who, she felt, were vulgarly capitalising on Mother's Day and launched a placard and pamphlet protest. On the last point, Decter returns to questions of gender relations, as they are vulgarly called, a subject to which she has made many valuable contributions over the years. Origin Late Middle English: from Latin vulgaris, from vulgus 'common people'. The original senses were 'used in ordinary calculations' (surviving in vulgar fraction) and 'in ordinary use, used by the people' (surviving in vulgar tongue). Latin vulgus ‘the common people’ is the source of vulgar. The original senses, from the late Middle Ages, were ‘used in ordinary calculations’, which survives in vulgar fraction, and ‘in ordinary use, used by the people’, which survives in vulgar tongue. The sense ‘coarse, uncultured’ dates from the mid 17th century. Divulge (Late Middle English) is from the same root, from Latin divulgare ‘to spread among the people’, hence to make generally known. Rhymes mulga Definition of vulgar in US English: vulgar adjectiveˈvəlɡərˈvəlɡər 1Lacking sophistication or good taste; unrefined. 粗俗的，庸俗的 the vulgar trappings of wealth Example sentencesExamples Selznick is often portrayed as a vulgar showman, catering to the lowest taste of the great American public. In neither case, of course, was art intended to be reduced to something vulgar or common - a mere commodity, for example, or propaganda. Manufacturers and importers are confident that there is now a market in India for what are called ‘luxury goods’, but are better described as products that are a vulgar display of extreme wealth. There is some truth to this image, which reflects a popular sense that wealth is vulgar. Characterized by an awkward blending of old and new architectural styles, it appealed to the general population, but sophisticates found it vulgar and ugly. Columnist John Blunt questioned whether such stunts classed as entertainment, when in fact they showed rather poor, even vulgar, taste. For example, in Japan fifty years ago it was considered vulgar to swim in a swimming suit but now bikinis are the norm. Britain is a cultural treasure house, a center for entertainment from the most sophisticated to the very vulgar indeed. Yet it continues to be maligned by ‘proper’ musicians and cultural sophisticates as the epitome of vulgar kitsch. I do have a guilty secret - I watch one of the most trashy, vulgar programmes on British TV. Many thought the painting vulgar and tawdry in its intention but many more adopted it as a contemporary religious icon and so it became one of the most popular paintings in the civic collection. It's almost as common and vulgar as chewing gum while you're serving customers. Looking out on Europe from the sheltered perspective of his home in Basle, Burckhardt deplored the arrival of mass society with its vulgar tastes, turbulent politics, and unlimited capacity for violence. I find the Metropolis vulgar, myself, but my business requires me to live here. He was crude, vulgar, tacky and brilliantly funny. The Ipswich Express said his sermons were ‘Redolent of bad taste, vulgar, and theatrical.’ Just as displaying great wealth is vulgar, so is excessive cheapness. We blame them for violence in society, vulgar tastes and a host of other ills. Quite apart from the serious ethical questions surrounding the killing of animals for their fur, mink fell out of favour as it became associated with the vulgar side of wealth. His anecdotal scenes featuring comic urchins were considered vulgar by critics but appealed to wealthy industrialists. Synonyms tasteless, gross, crass, unrefined, tawdry, ostentatious, flamboyant, over-elaborate, overdone, showy, flashy, gaudy, garish, brassy, kitsch, tinselly, flaunting, glaring, brash, loud, harsh impolite, ill-mannered, unmannerly, indecorous, unseemly, ill-bred, boorish, low, low-minded, gross, uncouth, crude, rough 1.1 Making explicit and offensive reference to sex or bodily functions; coarse and rude. 下流的；粗俗下流的；粗鄙的 a vulgar joke 粗鄙的笑话。 Example sentencesExamples She was besieged by vulgar and offensive propositions, her home was stalked and her work life affected by obscene callers. The skit was getting more and more vulgar and explicit, the volume was turned up far too loud, and it became evident to me that my driver was playing a prank. Rather than being incisive or challenging, they're merely vulgar and offensive. The most common forms of abuse were much less sophisticated and amounted to little more than vulgar name-calling. Once vulgar words are commonplace in the papers and the television, there's no going back - and public life just gets cruder and cruder. At its mildest, the consequence is vulgar language and rude behavior that diminish the quality of our day-to-day public interactions. There is no question that personal attacks should be removed, but what about rude or vulgar comments? The poet who was so courtly and gentle in his verse could be coarse and vulgar in his everyday speech. Seldom have we witnessed a more shameless display of rude and vulgar behavior towards an invited guest. So they do and say things that are just vulgar and rude. Basically, we advocate discussions within the framework of the law and discourage rumors, abuse and vulgar, offensive stuff. Our engineers were fooling about in the studio singing vulgar songs and making rude remarks in front of the microphone. No show that I can remember has plumbed such offensive depths in vulgar and derogatory language. There is not even a single vulgar or explicit scene in the entire film. His reputation is based upon offerings that are simply offensive and vulgar graffiti, lacking in humor, without wit, and devoid of intelligent satire. I brace myself for something offensive or vulgar or just inane enough to cause me to stifle a laugh. Political correctness has certainly not hindered my ability to be vulgar or offensive. Sexually explicit scenes and vulgar language are sliced off to make the feature films more palatable to all age groups. However, as I was reading the March / April 2003 issue I was surprised and disappointed at the appearance of vulgar language and explicit references. As if this was not bad enough, the article was accompanied by a vulgar colour photograph of the winning side in various stages of undress. Synonyms rude, indecent, indelicate, offensive, distasteful, obnoxious, risqué, suggestive, racy, earthy, off colour, colourful, coarse, crude, ribald, rabelaisian, bawdy, obscene, lewd, salacious, licentious, vile, depraved, sordid, smutty, dirty, filthy, pornographic, x-rated, scatological 1.2dated Characteristic of or belonging to the masses. 〈旧〉平民的；属于平民的 Example sentencesExamples Thasos passed measures to prevent wine-shops becoming bars, while the fact that taverns were so popular in Byzantium and Athens revealed the essentially vulgar character of democratic societies. Heckerling's most well-known films link female characters with humour that belongs to a tradition of vulgar or low comedy. At this time Jerome had translated the Hebrew Bible into Latin and it came to be known as the Vulgate, for the vulgar, that is, the ordinary people. The most likely explanation, however, is that Nushu derives from a simplification of vulgar forms of Chinese characters used in handwriting. Origin Late Middle English: from Latin vulgaris, from vulgus ‘common people’. The original senses were ‘used in ordinary calculations’ (surviving in vulgar fraction) and ‘in ordinary use, used by the people’ (surviving in vulgar tongue).
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