Meanings of vulgarise in English

Formerly we used to canonise our great men; nowadays we vulgarise them.

He loved his familiar surroundings, for nothing can vulgarise Oxford.

But these manifold household labours did not vulgarise Hilda's character.

But that is to vulgarise the question.

Why amusing to miscall, exaggerate, and vulgarise?

There is a flavour of sauer kraut about that unhappy tongue that would vulgarise a Queen if she talked it.

From such an ignoble spectacle as that of poor Mrs. Lincoln,- aspectacleto vulgarise a whole nation,-aristocraciesundoubtedly preserve us.

Money won't vulgarise Jean as it does so many people, but it may turn her into a very burdened, anxious pilgrim.

You must admit, Hirst, that a little Italian town even would vulgarise the whole scene, would detract from the vastness-thesense of elemental grandeur.

Paula was still charming, but it must be confessed a trifle vulgarised.

Blondin vulgarised Niagara; Jonathan is going to turn it into a colossal mill-sewer.

It was the hour vulgarised in drawing-room ballads as the 'gloaming.'

The thought is too solemn to be vulgarised by pulpit rhetoric.

How she vulgarises that pretty girl, her cousin, by mere contrast!

All the poetry of Italy has been dried up, and the whole country vulgarised.

He viewed with desperation the speed with which Britain was becoming vulgarised and uglified.