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vulgarian

[ vuhl-gair-ee-uhn ]

noun

  1. a vulgar person, especially one whose vulgarity is the more conspicuous because of wealth, prominence, or pretensions to good breeding.


vulgarian

/ ±¹ÊŒ±ôˈɡɛə°ùɪə²Ô /

noun

  1. a vulgar person, esp one who is rich or has pretensions to good taste
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Origin of vulgarian1

First recorded in 1640–50; vulgar + -ian
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Trump has reportedly had a hang-up about his mitts since Greydon Carter's Spy magazine called him a "short-fingered vulgarian" three decades ago.

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As Heather "Digby" Parton wrote, Trump "couldn't control himself and behaved once again like the undisciplined, lying, vulgarian who half the country already hates."

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He has some friends — acquaintances, really — whom he hates, mentally labeling them “the riffraff, the vulgarians, the slobs.â€

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He teaches ancient civilizations and prides himself on being the sort of principled educator who flunks senators’ kids and says stuff like, “Such are the vicissitudes of life†and “Listen, you hormonal vulgarian!â€

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And a good thing too, since in Paul’s own estimation, Barton boys are, with rare exception, a hopeless bunch of “philistines,†“reprobates,†“troglodytes,†“degenerates,†“hormonal vulgarians,†“fetid layabouts†and “snarling Visigoths.â€

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