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Meanings of vulgarism in English

Portuguese
grosseria
Catalan
indelicadesa
Spanish
vulgaridad

The quality of lacking taste and refinement.

        grosseria
        Portuguese
        ato obsceno
        Catalan
        vulgarisme
        Spanish
        vulgaridad

        An offensive or indecent word or phrase.

              ato obsceno
              Russian
              вульгаризм
              Portuguese
              vulgar
              Spanish
              vulgar
              Catalan
              vulgarisme

              Expression considered non-standard or characteristic of uneducated speech or writing.

                    Related terms
                    вульгаризм
                    Usage of vulgarism in English
                    1
                    There are gradations in awkwardness and vulgarism, as there are in everything else.
                    Letters to His Son, 1750 / On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of ...
                    2
                    Why,' said the prof, 'to employ a vulgarism, perspicuity is my penultimate appellative.'
                    Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest; Or, The Indian Girl Star o...
                    3
                    You are not-ifI may be permitted an expressive vulgarism-inthe same street with them.
                    The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
                    4
                    Punning is a vulgarism that should be scrupulously avoided.
                    Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society / A condensed but t...
                    5
                    No, in good truth: who can like such vulgarism!
                    The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
                    6
                    This "fetches" the parents (if I may be allowed a vulgarism) more than anything.
                    The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
                    7
                    Think of the vulgarism "flare up;" let it be "burns."
                    The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 / Letters 1821-184...
                    8
                    Mrs. Verne was almost beside herself (to use a vulgarism).
                    Marguerite Verne; Or, Scenes from Canadian Life
                    9
                    Outside, on a bus shelter, was the Serbian cross, and a vulgarism denouncing the Catholic Church.
                    The fracture zone: my return to the balkans
                    10
                    You are," he confided, "if you will permit the vulgarism, completely off your head."
                    Neverwhere
                    11
                    Obstruent-reliable-particularization-fabulosity-different to-averse to-did one ever come across such a mixture of antique pedantry and modern vulgarism!
                    New Grub Street
                    12
                    The Asiatic vulgarism of Hortensius thus dislodged classicism from the Roman platform and partly also from literature.
                    The History of Rome, Book V / The Establishment of the Military ...
                    13
                    A woman who would scorn the vulgarism of jealousy, and yet know what it is to love.
                    The Odd Women
                    14
                    I replied with a quaint vulgarism, wheeled my black and raced back the way I had come.
                    The Great Book of Amber
                    15
                    Did you ever hear such a vulgarism!
                    The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
                    16
                    The countess, whose return you seem so much to dread, has entertained the town with an excellent vulgarism.
                    The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1