vulgarity

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

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.

Definition: impoliteness
Antonyms: decorum, gentility

n

Definition: rudeness
Antonyms: decency

n

Definition: tastelessness
Antonyms: restraint, tastefulness

The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: the quality of lacking taste and refinement
  Synonyms: coarseness, commonness, grossness, vulgarism

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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