VULGAR


Meaning of VULGAR in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ vʌlgə(r) ]

1.

If you describe something as vulgar , you think it is in bad taste or of poor artistic quality.

The film is tasteless, vulgar and even badly shot.

ADJ [ disapproval ]

• vul‧gar‧ity

I hate the vulgarity of this room.

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2.

If you describe pictures, gestures, or remarks as vulgar , you dislike them because they refer to sex or parts of the body in a rude way that you find unpleasant.

The women laughed coarsely at some vulgar jokes...

The lyrics were vulgar.

ADJ [ disapproval ]

• vul‧gar‧ity

There’s a good deal of vulgarity.

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3.

If you describe a person or their behaviour as vulgar , you mean that they lack taste or behave rudely.

He was a vulgar old man, but he never swore in front of a woman...

= crude

ADJ [ disapproval ]

• vul‧gar‧ity

It’s his vulgarity that I can’t take.

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