Antonyms for vulgarity
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : vuhl-gar-i-tee |
| Phonetic Transcription : vʌlˈgær ɪ ti |
Definition of vulgarity
Origin :- 1570s, "the common people," from Late Latin vulgaritas "the multitude," from vulgaris (see vulgar). Meaning "coarseness, crudeness" is recorded from 1774.
- noun coarseness
- noun crassness
- He was vulgar with a vulgarity that went miles deeper than that of the major.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- The second power of vulgarity is obscenity, and this vice is like the pestilence.
- Extract from : « The Call of the Twentieth Century » by David Starr Jordan
- He would not encourage them in their vulgarity; they should have nothing from him that was not literature.
- Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
- By your own account you have helped the victory of vulgarity and smoke.
- Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
- The only fault which I never have had, which I never shall have, is vulgarity.
- Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
- There is, one must admit, a certain association of vulgarity with the onion.
- Extract from : « Storyology » by Benjamin Taylor
- The vulgarity of life in that household was but a small consideration to him now.
- Extract from : « Cleo The Magnificent » by Louis Zangwill
- Vulgarity, ignorance, misapprehension are old acquaintances.
- Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Extravagance is to be regarded as vulgarity and ignorance of nuptial proprieties.
- Extract from : « Laws » by Plato
- Not that this vulgarity was really natural to him,—far from it.
- Extract from : « Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) » by Charles James Lever
Synonyms for vulgarity
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