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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 ... 

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... 

You are not-ifI may be permitted an expressive vulgarism-inthe same street with them. 
 The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow 

Punning is a vulgarism that should be scrupulously avoided. 
 Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society / A condensed but t... 

No, in good truth: who can like such vulgarism! 
 The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3 

This "fetches" the parents (if I may be allowed a vulgarism) more than anything. 
 The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow 

Think of the vulgarism "flare up;" let it be "burns." 
 The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 / Letters 1821-184... 

Mrs. Verne was almost beside herself (to use a vulgarism). 
 Marguerite Verne; Or, Scenes from Canadian Life 

Outside, on a bus shelter, was the Serbian cross, and a vulgarism denouncing the Catholic Church. 
 The fracture zone: my return to the balkans 

You are," he confided, "if you will permit the vulgarism, completely off your head." 
 Neverwhere 

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 

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 ... 

A woman who would scorn the vulgarism of jealousy, and yet know what it is to love. 
 The Odd Women 

I replied with a quaint vulgarism, wheeled my black and raced back the way I had come. 
 The Great Book of Amber 

Did you ever hear such a vulgarism! 
 The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 

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 

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португальский

grosseria obscenidades ato obsceno vulgar

каталонский

indelicadesa vulgaritat grolleria barroeria grosseria tosquedat ordinariesa vulgarisme obscenitat

испанский

vulgaridad tosquedad zafiedad vulgar

русский

вульгаризм вульгаризмы

Vulgarism через время

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