vulgarizes

To negotiate an apology robs it of any genuineness, and vulgarizes it as an element of bargaining which lacks sincerity.

Iacobucci: Recognizing History of Residential Schools a “Necessary Step” : Law is Cool 2009

It's the celluloid world that often associates nudity with the carnal desire n hence vulgarizes the very term.

Naked floreta 2009

But Midcult has it both ways: it pretends to respect the standards of High Culture while in fact it waters them down and vulgarizes them.

Archive 2009-09-01 2009

But Midcult has it both ways: it pretends to respect the standards of High Culture while in fact it waters them down and vulgarizes them.

Highbrow and lowbrow 2009

The funny thing is that a lot of its side effects are precisely the ones that liberals say they oppose: for instance, diversity makes free speech less popular; it lessens community solidarity and support for welfare programs, and it vulgarizes the arts.

Luke Ford Interviews Steve Sailer Steve Sailer 2005

The funny thing is that a lot of its side effects are precisely the ones that liberals say they oppose: for instance, diversity makes free speech less popular; it lessens community solidarity and support for welfare programs, and it vulgarizes the arts.

Archive 2005-03-06 Steve Sailer 2005

Clare miniaturizes and (further) vulgarizes Byron's apostrophes to cash, begging his imaginary reader for "a single pound" in exchange for the single manuscript that cannot undergo a Byronic alchemy into gilded coats.

Like 1999

Sheppard, it degrades the taste and blunts the feelings -- in a word, it vulgarizes, and is as improper reading for the young, so far as _effect_ is concerned, as the most immoral production extant.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

Notwithstanding the fact that we owe some of our strongest idioms to slang, the free use of slang always vulgarizes.

English: Composition and Literature 1899

There is something in the atmosphere that offends one's sense of decency and vulgarizes the scenery, the sound of the sea, the moon.

Letters of Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882