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Adjective: vulgar  vúl-gu(r)
  1. Lacking refinement, cultivation or taste
    "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich";
    - coarse, common, rough-cut, uncouth
     
  2. (disparaging) of or associated with ordinary, common 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, salty, coarse, ripe [informal]

See also: indecent, informal, lowborn, unrefined

Encyclopedia: Vulgar