Sentence Examples
He had emerged, married an uncongenial and rather vulgar Swiss girl, and obtained a professorship at Cooper's Hill. |
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For some reason it doesn't mesh with the rest of the diction and seems strange and inappropriately vulgar. |
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Later on the custom was abolished because vulgar people tittered and the dignity of the elephants or their mahouts was wounded. |
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Seldom have we witnessed a more shameless display of rude and vulgar behavior towards an invited guest. |
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The last years of Augustine's life were devoted to sharp exchanges with him, in which fair comment was mingled with vulgar abuse. |
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Of course, the ultimate in vulgar glamour was sporting a full-length white mink. |
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Personally, I find this practice extremely vulgar, as there always remains evidence of their habit in the U-bend of their toilet bowl. |
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For example, in Japan fifty years ago it was considered vulgar to swim in a swimming suit but now bikinis are the norm. |
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However, it has not become ugly or vulgar due to the nature of the tourists, who are sporty, outdoor types. |
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Here come the tumbrils, inching their way slowly through the rotting cabbages and vulgar ribaldry of Republican isolationists. |
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As if this was not bad enough, the article was accompanied by a vulgar colour photograph of the winning side in various stages of undress. |
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There is no question that personal attacks should be removed, but what about rude or vulgar comments? |
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I brace myself for something offensive or vulgar or just inane enough to cause me to stifle a laugh. |
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She was besieged by vulgar and offensive propositions, her home was stalked and her work life affected by obscene callers. |
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Basically, we advocate discussions within the framework of the law and discourage rumors, abuse and vulgar, offensive stuff. |
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The most common forms of abuse were much less sophisticated and amounted to little more than vulgar name-calling. |
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There is some truth to this image, which reflects a popular sense that wealth is vulgar. |
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It's almost as common and vulgar as chewing gum while you're serving customers. |
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Columnist John Blunt questioned whether such stunts classed as entertainment, when in fact they showed rather poor, even vulgar, taste. |
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Selznick is often portrayed as a vulgar showman, catering to the lowest taste of the great American public. |
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I find the Metropolis vulgar, myself, but my business requires me to live here. |
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His anecdotal scenes featuring comic urchins were considered vulgar by critics but appealed to wealthy industrialists. |
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We blame them for violence in society, vulgar tastes and a host of other ills. |
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Britain is a cultural treasure house, a center for entertainment from the most sophisticated to the very vulgar indeed. |
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It was an indulgence of high spirits or, at worst, a vulgar exhibit of personal vanity and artistic vacuity. |
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They're about the vulgar, grunting, brainless way in which these subjects are handled. |
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A red-haired Cuban refugee used to take offense at nearly everything I uttered, finding me unrefined, unlettered, vulgar, and a bore. |
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In Imamura's eyes, all this wicked wantonness is as graphic in its disgust and scandalous at its heart as hardcore images or vulgar stag reels. |
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Arguments from incredulity wallow in a vulgar populism that elevates appeal to unlearned prejudice to a categorical imperative. |
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Authorities last year filed a case against a leading actor for performing in vulgar scenes in a film. |
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Oh, the wonders of Euroland, the rip-off merchants can no longer hide behind the vulgar fractions of currency translators. |
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But true adepts would never have been concerned with anything so vulgar as financial gain. |
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I adjure you to drop whatever vulgar habits you may have learned before you meet your husband. |
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The most likely explanation, however, is that Nushu derives from a simplification of vulgar forms of Chinese characters used in handwriting. |
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He's been given a priceless chance to put a positive spin on the events of his life, but still manages to come off as boorish, sexist and vulgar. |
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Kate Snell does not come on like Lady Muck but she is engaged in the same vulgar trade. |
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Heckerling's most well-known films link female characters with humour that belongs to a tradition of vulgar or low comedy. |
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The rent-seeking dynamic doesn't get much more vulgar than this city's zoning code. |
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Combined with a glass of wine, sweet and vulgar in taste to any connoisseurs, such made for a perfect repast in the quiet of his home. |
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Many contributors were Trinity graduates, parading classical learning and disdain for the vulgar. |
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One wonders, however, if he fully subscribes to the vulgar leftism his argument suggests. |
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His dialogues border on the vulgar and the lewd and thanks to his ilk, we know why people look down upon the rustic. |
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At its mildest, the consequence is vulgar language and rude behavior that diminish the quality of our day-to-day public interactions. |
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His work, like the man himself, is ribald, often obscene, but never vulgar. |
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The programme was relentlessly unflashy, balm in a media world that gets louder and more vulgar by the day. |
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Rather than being incisive or challenging, they're merely vulgar and offensive. |
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Our engineers were fooling about in the studio singing vulgar songs and making rude remarks in front of the microphone. |
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It would thus have been a loanword from Hebrew in the vulgar speech of the Greek settlers in Egypt. |
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The loud, the abusive, the vulgar have demolished the restraints and the manners which heretofore governed public discourse. |
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Charlene was acting differently to how she acted at school, she was being loud and vulgar, speaking her mind on anything and everything. |
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In very loud and vulgar, descriptive terms, I told him what exactly he could do with his encore. |
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The poet who was so courtly and gentle in his verse could be coarse and vulgar in his everyday speech. |
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It borrows heavily and outrageously from other media, but not in a low-rent or vulgar way. |
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They claim it is not their fault that life can be vulgar, pornographic and sadistic. |
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No show that I can remember has plumbed such offensive depths in vulgar and derogatory language. |
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You are the rudest, most foul, vulgar, offensive, and uncouth child I've ever seen! |
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Because of his films, Russell was often considered as a vulgar and wild man-hater. |
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At the same time, don't bow and scrape before the vulgar, even when they are proud and full of themselves. |
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May we change barbaric, vulgar, and amoral political behavior via the political aesthetic? |
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Political correctness has certainly not hindered my ability to be vulgar or offensive. |
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That struggle illustrates how broad-based culture, popular and vulgar, is far from being a mere distraction or a source of self-absorption. |
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Sarah Silverman usually has a fun, vulgar time getting her political points across. |
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For all the vulgar jokes we collectively enjoy, there's a cultural disconnect between sexual humor and actual eroticism. |
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It was the fundraiser to end all fundraisers, and no one was even asked to do anything so vulgar as to contribute any cash. |
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The City in particular has been revealed to be a place of probity and honour whose accountants couldn't be more different from the vulgar and grasping Yanks. |
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Students of the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies who use vulgar language and dress lewdly have been publicly chided by a senior tutor. |
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Relationships are continuously played out as a game, an endeavour that appeases the passions, as each character presents their vulgar view of the non-existence of love. |
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Both made the most of fraudulence and whatever ultimately vulgar product they could produce. |
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Migrant workers often have to suffer being despised and laughed at and they are also associated with shabby clothes, vulgar behaviour and criminal activity. |
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They were sensationalistic and vulgar toward DSK, and they were sensationalistic and vulgar toward Anthony Weiner. |
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What if we'd been hearing the waltzes and mazurkas as china figurines in a glass cabinet, and the songs without words as lavish furnishings without vulgar display? |
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It is vulgar and it is vainglorious and therefore entirely typical of Palin's political style. |
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With a husband fighting in the war, likely to die at any moment, and a farm of wounded, vulgar soldiers, mothering a child would not be an easy task. |
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Instead the only letters that should be excluded from the public view are those that are illegible, libelous, uncivil, slanderous, vulgar or duplicates. |
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This means that even brute action is a form of contemplation, for even the most vulgar or base act has, at its base and as its cause, the impulse to contemplate the greater. |
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Just as displaying great wealth is vulgar, so is excessive cheapness. |
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Characterized by an awkward blending of old and new architectural styles, it appealed to the general population, but sophisticates found it vulgar and ugly. |
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The skit was getting more and more vulgar and explicit, the volume was turned up far too loud, and it became evident to me that my driver was playing a prank. |
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His reputation is based upon offerings that are simply offensive and vulgar graffiti, lacking in humor, without wit, and devoid of intelligent satire. |
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There is not even a single vulgar or explicit scene in the entire film. |
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There are indeed many people who regard the foreign minister as a vulgar arriviste. |
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We chicks were bored of killing our brain cells in vulgar drinking competitions down Broad Street anyhoo. |
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Brian Peters writes that in various forms of fairytale fantasy, even the villain's language might be inappropriate if vulgar. |
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Rehearsals were difficult, with Olivier determined to play his conception of the role despite the director's view that it was vulgar. |
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The hissings and screamings of the vulgar against him as he moved forward on his stedfast course he heeded less than those of geese on a common. |
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It was never intended to do anything as vulgar as actually earn money. |
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Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber. |
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He later called her an unprintably vulgar sexual slur, unaware that he was being taped. |
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He also resisted the vulgar racist stereotypes of the day and wrote about the slave trade with an antiracializing rhetoric. |
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In its recoil from the gross anthropopathy of the vulgar notions, it falls into the vacuum of absolute apathy. |
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Although called Foeniculum vulgare in Latin, there is nothing foelike or vulgar about these plants that are part of the carrot family. |
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Frederick Deknatel on the vulgar Kafkaesque genius of Sonallah Ibrahim. |
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The philologians have all accepted with an excess of good faith the view that vulgar languages meanings were fixed by convention. |
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I'll take another glass of the sherry wine, just to wet my whistle, as the vulgar saying is, before I begin. |
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Women wrote in hiragana, Japanese characters that were considered vulgar by Japanese men, and mostly used them for love letters. |
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If a picture is daubed with many bright and glaring colours, the vulgar admire it as an excellent piece. |
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The mechanical process of multiplying books had brought the New Testament in the vulgar tongue within the reach of every class. |
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Further, the same sacred name in other monuments precedes the vulgar name of King Takellothis, the sixth of the XXII. Dyn., as we have seen. |
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Relations, Ubications, Duration, the vulgar Philosophy admits into the list of something. |
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These synodists thought fit in Latin as yet to veil their decrees from vulgar eyes. |
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To man a lady was, in former times, a phrase similar to the vulgar one at present in use, to squire. |
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It was distasteful enough to rub elbows with an illiterate and vulgar white man of no ancestry. |
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More recently the cave has been promoted using its older, more vulgar name. |
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There is something noble in the carriage of an ordinary Rajput, and something vulgar in that of the most distinguished Mahratta. |
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Hailsham put off many potential backers by his extrovert, and some thought vulgar, campaigning. |
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It is almost 50 years since Western dancers first tried to cure the Russians of this crashingly vulgar habit. |
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John Goodby states that this popularity with the reading public allows Thomas's work to be classed as vulgar and common. |
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Good heavens, I can't write down to the level of the vulgar public! |
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It is widely recognized that the attributive use of the noun Jew, in phrases such as Jew lawyer or Jew ethics, is both vulgar and highly offensive. |
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Their houses may be crowded with low, vulgar, filthy trash, exposing their wives to all kinds of blackguardism, and they have no fears of their doing wrong. |
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He says that in his time Lombardy, or Gallia Cisalpina, was called by the Germans Welshland, and hence, by the vulgar, Italy was called Welshland, and the Italians Welshers. |
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A wholesome British name like Diana, Anne, Margaret or Elizabeth impresses a judge much more than all your vulgar Marilyns, Donnas, Madonnas and Dawns. |
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It gently but firmly satirizes pop-culture idiocy, from the poofy-shirted cheesiness of Alex's old group, PoP, to today's infinitely more vulgar, fake-reality entertainment. |
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They're playing the most successful side in European history, who are spearheaded by the smuggest man in football and take a vulgar approach to their transfer dealings. |
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In the French language, which evolved directly from common or vulgar Latin over the centuries, solidus changed to soldus, then solt, then sol and finally sou. |
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As with many languages, over time the spoken vulgar language diverged from the written language with the written language remaining somewhat static. |
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There, too, it was originally the vulgar script in contrast with the official cuneiform script employed for all official documents, compacts, etc. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
At first, with the immeasurable and vulgar tedium of Mr. crosland's popular books in my memory, I thought he was joking. |
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He was vulgar with a vulgarity that went miles deeper than that of the major. |
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I need not tell you that to me reformations in morals are as meaningless and vulgar as Reformations in theology. |
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She says they're vulgar for an innocent country girl like her cousin, Agnes Lynch. |
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Nor let any one apprehend that this subject can ever become trite and vulgar. |
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The same tendency is observable in bg., though it is usually considered vulgar. |
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Weiller and Norah were blatantly vulgar and intent on impressing their host. |
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There is nothing that has a more vulgar look than an overdone imitation of burled walnut. |
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Not the slightest deference is paid to the private opinions and sentiments of these carnivores by the vulgar crowd of sight-seers. |
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That vulgar girl is singing the castanet song in the second act at this moment. |
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Mr Erman despises the common trick and claptrap resorted to by vulgar writers. |
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Was he not strong enough to defy the corrosiveness of a mean, vulgar atmosphere? |
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When costliness rather than beauty is the effect of flowers, the display is vulgar. |
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He owed his aristocratic name to the custom, prevalent in those days, to Latinize all vulgar appellations. |
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A vulgar fraction is reduced to a decimal by dividing the numerator by the denominator. |
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He recommended himself to the favour of the prince by his scurrility and vulgar humour. |
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Nikoliev uttered these words in a vulgar, unpleasant tone, and then got into the droshky. |
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Losing the power to believe with vital faith in God and in the soul, men cling to the fantom life of cheap and vulgar pleasures. |
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In the vulgar version I find the Poet with his long hair is made to play the part of the fou. |
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She would be a grass widow, a subject for all the vulgar jest and loathsome wit of the community. |
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He was vulgar, he was brutal, he was a sensualist in his desire for all that wealth could buy him. |
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She was quite unable to repress a vulgar interest in the menials that served her. |
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Brought up in low environment, he snobbishly worships all this as base and vulgar. |
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Something ironically vulgar, sordidly tragic has seemed to creep into my relations with Judith. |
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Does not the vulgar estimate confound the philanthropist with the speculator? |
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Mr. Johnson's argument was not the less stringent because his idioms were vulgar. |
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For friendship is noble and refined, whereas pleasure is vulgar and illiberal. |
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Inconvenient, vulgar, inapposite, this should debar even the subscribers from obtaining probate for their wills. |
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It may be carried too far, and the fables of the vulgar have often a stratum of truth at the bottom. |
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Him he thought for that moment everything that was aggressively and intrusively vulgar. |
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There are picturesque glimpses in Mr. Kipling's vulgar stories of fighting. |
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That gentleman did indeed hate his crude accent and vulgar laugh and above all the lamblike submission to him of their friends. |
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What is beyond their own power, the vulgar cannot comprehend to be lawfully in the power of others. |
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It was talk of a kind she loathed, but if Marian chose to be vulgar what was one to do? |
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Fresale, Jamieson adds, is still the vulgar pronunciation of the name in Lothian. |
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The turkey-trot is only vulgar when vulgar people dance it, and they'd be vulgar anyway, anywhere. |
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But I will not press this view, which may be too rarefied and lofty for the vulgar mind. |
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Like many other vulgar men in similar circumstances, he wondered at the ease and unconstraint he felt in such choice company! |
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She thought twins vulgar and most unrefined, and could not bear to discuss them. |
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The vulgar, wherever he passed, were instigated to reproach and vilify him. |
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He gives the general view of things, clearly, neutrally, with no vulgar emphasis of black and white. |
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Some of them are highly esteemed as remedies among the vulgar, and the use of others is confined to veterinary medicine. |
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You may take ham to appease hunger, or you may take it to prevent the obtrusion of that vulgar sensation. |
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It mattered not that her presence there showed her to be vulgar, impertinent, and obtrusive. |
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Change one hundred and two thousandths into a vulgar fraction of the same value. |
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The happy awakenings of eternity must outsoar the shadow of our night, its slayings and its vulgar patriotisms. |
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There is a vulgar tendency among all Americans to overdress which you must avoid. |
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We have studiously avoided portraying fashionable life according to the vulgar notions, whether depreciatory or panegyrical. |
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Apart from the vulgar bribes which affected the Young Turk politicians there were other motives to move the populace. |
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His Madame Guichard is the most cheerfully vulgar type of the parvenue which any one ever dared to put upon the stage. |
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The preparations of marshmallow have always been highly esteemed as pectorals by the vulgar. |
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He is so bright and intelligent, as a rule, that you wonder why he is so phenomenally vulgar. |
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The attempt was bold, and the Pleiad did not pretend to consult the taste of the vulgar. |
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But, in reacting everywhere against vulgar roughness, the very excess of his effort landed him at last in preciosity. |
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He could be lowdown and vulgar enough to ask right out if he wished. |
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Have I not bidden you leave the vulgarities of dialect to the vulgar? |
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Before I could tell him what a vulgar document it looked like, two more dirty strangers put me into a hackney coach. |
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Was it all because she suspected him of a vulgar intrigue with a shopgirl? |
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A tasteless and barbaric display, a vulgar generosity, an ignorant and purposeless prodigality. |
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Look what a tawdry and vulgar thing an embroidered slipper is on a woman's foot. |
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He thought of Cronshaw bound to a vulgar slattern, and he shuddered with dismay. |
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I think it odious, I think their monde is vulgar, nasty, miserable! |
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There is nothing more unjust than the vulgar opinion, by which physicians are misrepresented, as friends to death. |
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It is a crime to be above the vulgar, and yet not overawe the vulgar. |
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It was indeed no more than a humdrum narrative of a vulgar crime. |
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He says the name of our yacht, Hittie Magin, is unspeakably vulgar. |
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At last the enemy's mother appeared, and called Tom a bad, vicious, vulgar child, and ordered him away. |
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And vulgar, ignoble farce was turned into a great historical drama. |
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It was the most vulgar, ill-conditioned beast he had ever set eyes on. |
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Some of them are really vulgar, mannerless, and disrespectful, the way they talk to me. |
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He's vulgar and hysterical and bookish, but I don't think that sums him up. |
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There's a vulgar proverb about the bird that fouls its own nest, you know. |
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The piano at the foot of the staircase clanged through a mazurka with brazen impetuosity, as though a vulgar and impudent ghost were showing off. |
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I thought you were free from all vulgar sentimentalism and that you had a more independent mind. |
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Between the two men there was precisely the difference which separates the vulgar style from the noble style. |
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The ambitious vulgar show you their spoons and brooches and rings, and preserve their cards and compliments. |
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You'll take away mutual help, brotherly love, or, in the vulgar tongue, giving construes, which I hold to be one of our highest virtues. |
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To his mind she lent a tone to the vulgar whirlpool of gorging humanity, as if she had been some goddess mixing in a Homeric battle. |
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An ace Bulgarian in the sun of Portugal can easily become a vulgar Bulgar in the demands of the Premiership. |
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Voldemort's vulgar Nietzscheanism is a familiar moral nihilism that can never be entirely vanquished. |
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The fellow was unexpectedly vulgar, heavy, and impudently unintelligent. |
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And I could hardly have resigned myself to the simple, vulgar, direct debauchery of a clerk and have endured all the filthiness of it. |
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It was vulgar and not cordial, and yet it was honest and indefinably kind. |
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It was vulgar, it was overdone, it was absurd, but it was alive. |
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You wouldn't believe the vulgar things Harry would say out of pure fun! |
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But if he marries a very ignorant, vulgar woman, certainly I had better not visit her, if I can help it. |
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That is the result of academical work, in the hands of a vulgar person. |
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Who can tell if that mind, when the touchstone is applied to it, will not be found of a mean and vulgar character? |
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The vulgar quackeries drop off, atrophied, one after another. |
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The aim of the Baconian philosophy was to supply our vulgar wants. |
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To be a bagman is to be humble, but not of necessity vulgar. |
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Jennings, Lady Middleton's mother, was a good-humoured, merry, fat, elderly woman, who talked a great deal, seemed very happy, and rather vulgar. |
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They were not only vulgar and rich, but purse-proud and conceited as well. |
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He's vulgar and hysterical and bookish, but don't think that sums him up. |
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He believed her to be simply a vulgar, interfering, brazen-faced virago. |
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Even in outward demeanour they showed a stamp of majesty that made the warrior's haughty stride look vulgar, if not absurd. |
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He has no passion for the correct use of words, and often his song seems tuneless and sometimes vulgar. |
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He will be a completely gross, vulgar farmer, totally inattentive to appearances, and thinking of nothing but profit and loss. |
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You would have compressed me into a two-by-four pigeonhole of life, where all life's values are unreal, and false, and vulgar. |
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He was not cast in the stern poetical mold of fashionable Indian heroism, but on the contrary, was grievously given to vulgar jocularity. |
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They had never troubled me before, but they troubled me now, as vulgar appendages. |
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She must not be touched by the buffoons, nor by the ignorant vulgar, incapable of comprehending or appreciating her hidden treasures. |
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The result is a compound of vulgar rascalities and impotent Byronics. |
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We in our madness have separated the two, and have invented a realism that is vulgar, an ideality that is void. |
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But, away from vulgar argumentativeness, the concept of Levantism could have had a decent connotation. |
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But then no artist expects grace from the vulgar mind, or style from the suburban intellect. |
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This shows the worst kind of provincialism and a vulgar spirit. |
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To play upon the silver-voiced flute is Theban-like and vulgar. |
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Of the asceticism that deadens the senses, as of the vulgar profligacy that dulls them, it was to know nothing. |
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I had not yet reduced him to quite so vulgar a lie, and I felt proportionately ashamed. |
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It was a flippant, vulgar book, the outcome of a flippant, vulgar mind. |
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No vulgar emotion ever deformed the godlike tranquility of his soul. |
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He was at that period of intoxication in which vulgar drinkers fall and sleep. |
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No salesman ever made a distinct hit by telling vulgar stories. |
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The ruination of the French Riviera by greedy developers and vulgar nouveaux riches is a body blow very hard to recover from. |
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With the most vulgar swear word, Chatzimarkakis ousted Macedonian journalists from the EU panel discussion. |
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He desired not the purple and the fasces, the insignia of vulgar command. |
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Possibly at the moment, the vulgar Fenian seemed the finer fellow. |
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The vulgar directness of the question called for a direct answer. |
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For a girl of county family, you are inexcusably vulgar, Jane. |
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Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. |
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To live longer than forty years is bad manners, is vulgar, immoral. |
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No physiologist, and still less of a metaphysician, Chief Inspector Heat rose by the force of sympathy, which is a form of fear, above the vulgar conception of time. |
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He, however, wiped his lips with a slight wave of his handkerchief, to support a certain easy elegance which he firmly believed relieved the act of any vulgar quality. |
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And the asseverations of his love, which seemed to him so vulgar that he was ashamed to utter them, she drank in eagerly, and gradually became calmer. |
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I was very unwise to let you go among people of whom I know so little, kind, I dare say, but worldly, ill-bred, and full of these vulgar ideas about young people. |
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It's like a man to propose a bone and vulgar bread and cheese for company. |
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He was far above the more vulgar superstitions of his tribe, and so soon as he recognized the well-known attire of the conjurer, he prepared to pass it in cool contempt. |
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