VULGAR in a Sentence

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104 example sentences for VULGAR, such as:

1. Her vulgar cares were at an end.
2. Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.
3. The film is tasteless, vulgar and even badly shot.
4. The ladies felt that he was odiously, unendurably vulgar.
5. She had always thought that only common vulgar men visited such women.

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 Meanings and Examples of VULGAR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
vulgar
 a.  common; low; coarse; belonging or relating to the common people, as distinguished from the cultivated or educated; lacking cultivation or refinement
Classic Sentence: (96 in 7 pages)
1  The words had been on his tongue all the evening, but now that he had spoken them they struck him as inexpressibly vulgar and out of place.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
2  She had always thought that only common vulgar men visited such women.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
3  It gives him a very vulgar appearance when he walks-- well, it doesn't look very pretty.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
4  He walked with some difficulty and, as Aunt Pitty had remarked, spraddled in a very vulgar way.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
5  They all thought that obvious money-making and even talk of money were vulgar in the extreme.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
6  But I will satisfy your vulgar curiosity since you ask such pointed questions.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
7  She loved gaudy and expensive jewelry but she had an uneasy feeling that everyone was saying, with perfect truth, that this ring was vulgar.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
8  The ladies felt that he was odiously, unendurably vulgar.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
9  He was aware that the qualities distinguishing her from the herd of her sex were chiefly external: as though a fine glaze of beauty and fastidiousness had been applied to vulgar clay.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
10  Lost causes had a romantic charm for her, and she liked to picture herself as standing aloof from the vulgar press of the Quirinal, and sacrificing her pleasure to the claims of an immemorial tradition.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
11  Her vulgar cares were at an end.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
12  He was no less conscious than before of what was said of Lily Bart, but he could separate the woman he knew from the vulgar estimate of her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
13  The truth was that her funds, as usual, were inconveniently low; and to neither Dorset nor his wife could this vulgar embarrassment be safely hinted.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
14  She was in fact in urgent and immediate need of money: money to meet the vulgar weekly claims which could neither be deferred nor evaded.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
15  She remembered, and tried to forget, and remembered more sharply the vulgar detail of her husband's having observed the ancient customs of the land by chewing tobacco.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
Example Sentence:
1  As if I would talk on such a subject! Our family always HATED cats: nasty, low, vulgar things! Don't let me hear the name again!
2  What do you do when an obstreperous horde of drunken policemen goes carousing through your hotel, crashing into potted plants and singing vulgar songs?.
3  Who can tell if that mind, when the touchstone is applied to it, will not be found of a mean and vulgar character?
4  Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.
5  I've no idea how much the clothes cost because there was nothing so vulgar as a price tag in evidence.
6  The film is tasteless, vulgar and even badly shot.
7  Although I deplore the vulgarity of your language, I defend your right to express yourself freely.
8  Your childish name calling reminds us all that vulgarity is a weak man's imitation of strength.