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1. Lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
   "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich"
   - coarse, common, rough-cut, uncouth
    
2. Of or associated with the great masses of people
   "a vulgar and objectionable person"
   - common, plebeian, unwashed
    
3. Being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
   "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species"
   - common, vernacular
    
4. Conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
   "a vulgar gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited"
   - crude, earthy, gross

See also: indecent, informal, lowborn, unrefined, vulgarity, vulgarize, vulgarly

Encyclopedia: Vulgar