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vulgarism

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Noun
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vul=gar=ism

CIDE DICTIONARY

vulgarismn. [Cf. F. vulgarisme.].
  •  Grossness; rudeness; vulgarity.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A vulgar phrase or expression.  [1913 Webster]
    "A fastidious taste will find offense in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call “slang,” which not a few of our writers seem to have affected."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

vulgarism, n.
1 a word or expression in coarse or uneducated use.
2 an instance of coarse or uneducated behaviour.

THESAURUS

vulgarism

Babbittry, Gothicism, bad taste, barbarism, barbarousness, bombasticness, bourgeois taste, cacology, cacophony, camp, campiness, clumsiness, coarseness, colloquialism, corruption, crudeness, cumbrousness, dysphemism, gracelessness, grossness, harshness, heaviness, high camp, ill-balanced sentences, impropriety, impurity, inappropriateness, inconcinnity, incorrectness, indecency, indecorousness, indecorum, indelicacy, inelegance, inelegancy, infelicity, kitsch, lack of finish, lack of polish, leadenness, localism, low camp, philistinism, pompousness, ponderousness, poor diction, poor taste, pop, pop culture, roughness, rudeness, sesquipedalianism, sesquipedality, slang, slipshod construction, solecism, stiltedness, taboo word, tastelessness, turgidity, unaestheticism, unaestheticness, unbecomingness, uncouthness, uneuphoniousness, unfittingness, ungracefulness, unrefinement, unseemliness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, unwieldiness, vernacularism, vulgar taste, vulgarity, vulgarness

ROGET THESAURUS

vulgarism

Vulgarity

N vulgarity, vulgarism, barbarism, Vandalism, Gothicism, mauvis gout, bad taste, gaucherie, awkwardness, want of tact, ill-breeding, courseness, indecorum, misbehavior, lowness, homeliness, low life, mauvais ton, rusticity, boorishness, brutality, rowdyism, blackguardism, ribaldry, slang, bad joke, mauvais plaisanterie, gaudiness, tawdriness, false ornament, finery, frippery, trickery, tinsel, gewgaw, clinquant, baroque, rococo, rough diamond, tomboy, hoyden, cub, unlicked cub, clown, Goth, Vandal, Boeotian, snob, cad, gent, parvenu, frump, dowdy, slattern, in bad taste vulgar, unrefined, coarse, indecorous, ribald, gross, unseemly, unbeseeming, unpresentable, contra bonos mores, ungraceful, dowdy, slovenly, ungenteel, shabby genteel, low, common, hoi polloi, uncourtly, uncivil, ill bred, ill mannered, underbred, ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike, unladylike, unfeminine, wild, wild as an unbacked colt, untutored, unschooled (ignorant), unkempt, uncombed, untamed, unlicked, unpolished, uncouth, plebeian, incondite, heavy, rude, awkward, homely, homespun, home bred, provincial, countrified, rustic, boorish, clownish, savage, brutish, blackguard, rowdy, snobbish, barbarous, barbaric, Gothic, unclassical, doggerel, heathenish, tramontane, outlandish, uncultivated, Bohemian, obsolete, unfashionable, newfangled, odd, particular, affected, meretricious, extravagant, monstrous, horrid, shocking, gaudy, tawdry, overornamented, baroque, rococo, bedizened, tricked out, gingerbread, obtrusive.


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