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vulgarism

[ vuhl-guh-riz-uhm ]

noun

  1. vulgar behavior or character; vulgarity.
  2. a vulgar expression; a word or phrase used only in common colloquial, and especially in coarse, speech.


vulgarism

/ ˈ±¹ÊŒ±ôɡəˌ°ùɪ³úÉ™³¾ /

noun

  1. a coarse, crude, or obscene expression
  2. a word or phrase found only in the vulgar form of a language
  3. another word for vulgarity
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of vulgarism1

First recorded in 1635–45; vulgar + -ism
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The idea of the swing vote is either a vulgarism or a myth — a story we tell ourselves to explain why a justice identified with an ideological bloc occasionally votes the other way.

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Later, she said, she overheard a patron use a vulgarism to say that there were too many black students in the museum.

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Trump huffily called Tlaib’s vulgarism “disgraceful†and “highly disrespectful to the United States of America.â€

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Mr. Goldberg had a third source, whom he described as “one friend of Trump,†as using a rather different vulgarism to describe Mr. Trump’s foreign policy.

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As Trump spoke, someone in the crowd accused him of not caring about Puerto Rico, using a vulgarism to make the point.

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