vulgarity

(vŭl-găr'ĭ-tē)
n., pl., -ties.

1. The quality or condition of being vulgar.
2. Something, such as an act or expression, that offends good taste or propriety.

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noun

1. The quality or state of being obscene: bawdiness, coarseness, dirtiness, filthiness, foulness, grossness, lewdness, obscenity, profaneness, profanity, scurrility, scurrilousness, smuttiness, vulgarness. Slang raunch, raunchiness. See decent/indecent.
2. Something that is offensive to accepted standards of decency: bawdry, dirt, filth, obscenity, profanity, ribaldry, scatology, smut. Slang raunch. See decent/indecent.

n

Definition: impoliteness
Antonyms: decorum, gentility

n

Definition: rudeness
Antonyms: decency

n

Definition: tastelessness
Antonyms: restraint, tastefulness

Quotes:

"The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar." - Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of taste." - Cyril Connolly

"It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness." - Lawrence Durrell

"Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something." - Edward M. Forster

"It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon." - Alice James

"A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common" - William Nazlitt

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For a list of words related to vulgarity, see:

• Perversions, Fetishes, and Titillations - vulgarity: coarse sexual behavior and language

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