Antonyms for vulgarly

Grammar : Adv

Spell : vuhl-ger

Phonetic Transcription : ˈvʌl gər

Definition of vulgarly

Origin : late 14c., "common, ordinary," from Latin vulgaris "of or pertaining to the common people, common, vulgar," from vulgus "the common people, multitude, crowd, throng," from PIE root *wel- "to crowd, throng" (cf. Sanskrit vargah "division, group," Greek eilein "to press, throng," Middle Breton gwal'ch "abundance," Welsh gwala "sufficiency, enough"). Meaning "coarse, low, ill-bred" is first recorded 1640s, probably from earlier use (with reference to people) with meaning "belonging to the ordinary class" (1530).

As in loudly : adv audibly
As in rudely : adv impolitely

Example sentences :

So enough; come with me and learn how to be vulgarly robust.
Extract from : « A Woman Tenderfoot » by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson

The dear woman licked her chops, not vulgarly, of course, but mentally.
Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus

He is, by the way, not half such a fool as he looks and is vulgarly supposed to be.
Extract from : « Two Sides of the Face » by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

In short, she was a branchiopod, to be vulgarly precise, a water-flea.
Extract from : « "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" » by Douglas English

The whole meeting, in fact, was what is vulgarly called a bilk.
Extract from : « Merry-Garden and Other Stories » by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

He then made what can only be described, vulgarly, as a distinct 'eye.'
Extract from : « The Limit » by Ada Leverson

I certainly say it distinctly enough—brutally and vulgarly enough.
Extract from : « Washington Square » by Henry James

A woman is vulgarly said to fall to pieces, or tumble to pieces, when she is confined.
Extract from : « The Slang Dictionary » by John Camden Hotten

She is not vulgarly well, but has not the least illness in the world.
Extract from : « Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. VI, November 1850, Vol. I » by Various

It is always better to be vulgarly right, than politely wrong.
Extract from : « A Collection of Essays and Fugitiv Writings » by Noah Webster

Synonyms for vulgarly

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