Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which makes common, coarse, or gross: as, a vulgarizer of popular taste.
- noun One who popularizes, or makes attractive to the people.
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- noun One who
vulgarizes .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who makes something vulgar
- noun someone who makes attractive to the general public
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Examples
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Wilson, Edmund, as magician, 126; as polyglot, 127; as haute vulgarizer, 127; as terrible husband, 127; as carnal diarist, 127; accessibility of, 127; tragic obsolescence of, 127
Who's Who 2005
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Wilson, Edmund, as magician, 126; as polyglot, 127; as haute vulgarizer, 127; as terrible husband, 127; as carnal diarist, 127; accessibility of, 127; tragic obsolescence of, 127
Who's Who 2005
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Wilson, Edmund, as magician, 126; as polyglot, 127; as haute vulgarizer, 127; as terrible husband, 127; as carnal diarist, 127; accessibility of, 127; tragic obsolescence of, 127
Who's Who 2005
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Twenty-five minutes may not be enough time to solve all our problems, but it's enough to point the direction, especially for a vulgarizer like me who's specialized in doing it in 45-second bites.
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The Reformation, which was rather poor in original thought, was at any rate a tremendous vulgarizer of the current culture.
The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910
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In fact, Wright, like Lopez, has a common touch, but the director is more a vulgarizer than a populist-a crucial difference when the subject is the wretched of the earth.
unknown title 2009
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a new thing, was not also a vulgarizer -- that Wilde seems to me to stand to his age.
The Art of Letters Robert Lynd 1914
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