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Grammar : Noun

Spell : vuhl-guh-riz-uh m

Phonetic Transcription : ˈvʌl gəˌrɪz əm

Definition of vulgarism

noun corruption

Example sentences :

We are obliged to be,” with a slight shudder at the vulgarism, “stylish.
Extract from : « Cap'n Warren's Wards » by Joseph C. Lincoln

We felt that we had been green, grass-green, and that (to use a vulgarism) the gilt was off the gingerbread.
Extract from : « Venice » by Dorothy Menpes

To use a vulgarism, it is a high-class scholastic sausage-machine.
Extract from : « The Blower of Bubbles » by Arthur Beverley Baxter

This name was not a Yankee vulgarism, but a well-known old English term.
Extract from : « Stage-coach and Tavern Days » by Alice Morse Earle

They are also called bivalves bi the unlearned, but this iz a vulgarism.
Extract from : « The Complete Works of Josh Billings » by Henry W. Shaw

There are gradations in awkwardness and vulgarism, as there are in everything else.
Extract from : « The PG Edition of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son » by The Earl of Chesterfield

The term is what we may call a vulgarism—you perceive that, do you not?
Extract from : « The Boss of Little Arcady » by Harry Leon Wilson

His verses are too good to be spoiled by what began as a vulgarism.
Extract from : « Society for Pure English Tract 4 » by John Sargeaunt

This "fetches" the parents (if I may be allowed a vulgarism) more than anything.
Extract from : « Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow » by Jerome K. Jerome

I do not care to report such things—it verges on vulgarism; but I will tell you a word or two that came from the maimed man.
Extract from : « A Dream of the North Sea » by James Runciman

Synonyms for vulgarism

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