Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Vulgarity.
- noun A crudely indecent word or phrase; an obscenity.
- noun A word, phrase, or manner of expression used chiefly by uneducated people.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Coarseness, rudeness, or grossness of manners; vulgarity; commonness.
- noun A phrase or expression used only in common colloquial, especially in coarse, speech.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Grossness; rudeness; vulgarity.
- noun A vulgar phrase or expression.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun grammar A word or term that is considered
offensive orvulgar . - noun A spelling, word, or phrase used in
common speech that is consideredimproper orincorrect forformal communication.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of lacking taste and refinement
- noun an offensive or indecent word or phrase
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Examples
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To use a vulgarism which is stripped of its vulgarity if employed reverently, as I would do it -- we know where to have Him.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah Alexander Maclaren 1868
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Just because Dawg is a jerk does not make Chiapas a "sak-o-xit", a poorly phrased vulgarism if there ever was one.
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Just because Dawg is a jerk does not make Chiapas a "sak-o-xit", a poorly phrased vulgarism if there ever was one.
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Just because Dawg is a jerk does not make Chiapas a "sak-o-xit", a poorly phrased vulgarism if there ever was one.
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Just because Dawg is a jerk does not make Chiapas a "sak-o-xit", a poorly phrased vulgarism if there ever was one.
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Just because Dawg is a jerk does not make Chiapas a "sak-o-xit", a poorly phrased vulgarism if there ever was one.
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Just because Dawg is a jerk does not make Chiapas a "sak-o-xit", a poorly phrased vulgarism if there ever was one.
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Just because Dawg is a jerk does not make Chiapas a "sak-o-xit", a poorly phrased vulgarism if there ever was one.
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Just because Dawg is a jerk does not make Chiapas a "sak-o-xit", a poorly phrased vulgarism if there ever was one.
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Just because Dawg is a jerk does not make Chiapas a "sak-o-xit", a poorly phrased vulgarism if there ever was one.
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