Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See vulgarization, vulgarise.
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- noun UK the process of making something
vulgar , especially by using thelanguage of ordinary people
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of rendering something coarse and unrefined
- noun the act of making something attractive to the general public
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Examples
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Ngobese said it supported the nationalisation of mines, but not as a means of using government money to bail out failing business to benefit the owners, which it regarded as "vulgarisation" of the ideal.
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Ngobese said it supported the nationalisation of mines, but not as a means of using government money to bail out failing business to benefit the owners, which it regarded as "vulgarisation" of the ideal.
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It's not the practice of haute vulgarisation that bothers me -- that's an entirely worthy pursuit, exposing a wider audience to really interesting ideas generated in the hyper-specialist atmosphere that defines today's academic world -- but the attitude, not only of the aforesaid intellectual, but of his or her wide-eyed, adoring followers.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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Blair liked wars because he believed in making the world anew to some academic blueprint, or in his case to its vulgarisation for consumption by the uncultured likes of him.
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And here's a thought for all members of the sorts of Londoner who abhor the vulgarisation of their imaginary "village communities" yet buy all their books from Amazon:
West Hampstead: shopping, homogenisation and resistance 2010
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It's not the practice of haute vulgarisation that bothers me--that's an entirely worthy pursuit, exposing a wider audience to really interesting ideas generated in the hyper-specialist atmosphere that defines today's academic world--but the attitude, not only of the aforesaid intellectual, but of his or her wide-eyed, adoring followers.
Public intellectuals 2009
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Of additional interest in this regard is the gross vulgarisation of the message our President sought to convey when he wrote about the racist stereotype of
ANC Today 2006
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Of additional interest in this regard is the gross vulgarisation of the message our President sought to convey when he wrote about the racist stereotype of Africans.
ANC Today 2006
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Inevitably, ignorance of Marxism by "Marxists" leads to the vulgarisation of Marxism, the mouthing of revolutionary-sounding but empty phrases, dogmatism and political adventurism.
ANC Today 2006
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Inevitably, ignorance of Marxism by "Marxists" leads to the vulgarisation of Marxism, the mouthing of revolutionary-sounding but empty phrases, dogmatism and political adventurism.
ANC Today 2006
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