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In the event, a user might well be confused about seeing the label Vulgar applied to four-letter words, when its definitions seem to indicate that it means (merely) "in bad taste."
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I do object, however, to the label Vulgar given to such entries.
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Some one called her Vulgar, she is so ordinary and pretentious, and would make Rossini's home and salon very commonplace if it were not that the master glorified all by his presence.
In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters 1886
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“The point is that the vast heap of simplifications we would call Vulgar Latin were not carried into Ecclesiastical Latin but instead into the Romance languages...”
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You write about what “we would call Vulgar Latin”.
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The point is that the vast heap of simplifications we would call Vulgar Latin were not carried into Ecclesiastical Latin but instead into the Romance languages.
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Vulgar, that is, when put forward as exponents or adequate expressions of intellectual grandeur.
Memorials and Other Papers — Complete Thomas De Quincey 1822
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Vulgar, that is, when put forward as exponents or adequate expressions of intellectual grandeur.
Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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The investigation, known as Vulgar Betrayal, touched upon both Hamas and Al Qaeda.
One Old Vet 2009
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The common man -- including the soldiers, the colonizers, and the natives -- spoke Latin, albeit a more popular form known as Vulgar Latin.
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