Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make vulgar; debase.
- transitive verb To disseminate widely; popularize.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make vulgar or common.
- To produce vulgarity.
- To act in a vulgar manner.
- Also spelled
vulgarise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb To make vulgar, or common.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To express or re-express something in a
base ,common , orlewd manner; to make something commonplace; to make somethingvulgar .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb act in a vulgar manner
- verb cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use
- verb debase and make vulgar
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Examples
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Visual ironies tend to fall flat or they vulgarize very quickly or they become grotesque.
A Conversation with Harold Bloom author of How To Read and Why 2010
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Zuckerberg clearly does not want to sell the company to a firm that will vulgarize it with ubiquitous ads.
Chris Hoofnagle: The Facebook Enigma Chris Hoofnagle 2010
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To vulgarize and to falsify until the bare lies shine through.
Pastor Gary Cass: Let's Get Together For A Good Ole Christian Hatefest! 2009
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Doesn't TV vulgarize our artistic and aesthetic sensibilities?
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To vulgarize and to falsify until the bare lies shine through.
Thanks Anyway 2006
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“If I tried to vulgarize her, and make her as cheap as cow-boy literature, I should ask for eternal punishment as a favor.”
The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008
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“If I tried to vulgarize her, and make her as cheap as cow-boy literature, I should ask for eternal punishment as a favor.”
The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008
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Indeed, it would even dangerous to the multitudes, who would only misunderstand and “vulgarize it.”
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"Wordsworth and Rock 'n Roll" is a pairing guaranteed to highlight the risk involved in any juxtaposition of high and low culture in the classroomwhich is, that it will seem simultaneously to vulgarize what ought to be pure and to intellectualize what ought to be gritty and authentic.
How to Save 'Tintern Abbey' from New-Critical Pedagogy (in Three Minutes Fifty-Six Seconds) 2002
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She felt that at that moment she could not put into words the sense of shame, of rapture, and of horror at this stepping into a new life, and she did not want to speak of it, to vulgarize this feeling by inappropriate words.
Anna Karenina 2003
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