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Vulgarity definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

VULGARITY, n.
1. Mean condition in life; the state of the lower classes of society.
2. Grossness or clownishness of manners or language; as vulgarity of behavior; vulgarity of expression or language.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the quality of lacking taste and refinement [syn: coarseness, commonness, grossness, vulgarity, vulgarism, raunch]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -ties) Date: 1579 1. something vulgar 2. the quality or state of being vulgar

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) 1 the quality of being vulgar. 2 an instance of this.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Vulgarity Vul*gar"i*ty, n. [Cf. F. vulgarit['e], L. vulgaritas the multitude.] 1. The quality or state of being vulgar; mean condition of life; the state of the lower classes of society. --Sir T. Browne. 2. Grossness or clownishness of manners of language; absence of refinement; coarseness. The reprobate vulgarity of the frequenters of Bartholomew Fair. --B. Jonson.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see vulgar

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Grossness, coarseness, rudeness, vileness, meanness, want of refinement.

Foolish Dictionary

The conduct of others.

Moby Thesaurus

Gothicism, bad manners, bad taste, barbarism, barbarousness, baseness, bombasticness, cacology, cacophony, caddishness, clumsiness, coarseness, crudeness, cumbrousness, deficiency, discourteousness, discourtesy, dysphemism, earthiness, failure, fewness, filthiness, foulness, frankness, gaucherie, gracelessness, gross behavior, grossness, harshness, heaviness, humbleness, ignobility, ill breeding, ill manners, ill-balanced sentences, imperfection, impoliteness, impropriety, impurity, inadequacy, incivility, incompetence, inconcinnity, inconsiderateness, incorrectness, indecorousness, indelicacy, inelegance, inelegancy, infelicity, insensitivity, insufficiency, inurbanity, lack of finish, lack of polish, lack of refinement, leadenness, lewdness, littleness, loutishness, maladroitness, mannerlessness, meanness, mediocrity, obscenity, offensiveness, pettiness, pompousness, ponderousness, poor diction, raciness, rankness, rawness, roughness, rudeness, saltiness, sesquipedalianism, sesquipedality, shabbiness, slipshod construction, smallness, spiciness, stiltedness, subnormality, tactlessness, tastelessness, tawdriness, triviality, turgidity, uncourtliness, uncouthness, uneuphoniousness, ungallantness, ungentlemanliness, ungracefulness, ungraciousness, unmannerliness, unpoliteness, unrefinement, unseemliness, unskillfulness, unsolicitousness, unsophistication, unwieldiness, vileness, vulgarism