vulgarism
noun
1 vulgarism
An offensive or indecent word or phrase.
synonyms: dirty word, filth, obscenity, smut.
Polish: świństwo, gruby wyraz, łacina, brzydki wyraz, wulgaryzm
2 vulgarism
The quality of lacking taste and refinement.
synonyms: coarseness, commonness, grossness, raunch, vulgarity.
Roget 851:
vulgarity,
vulgarism;
barbarism,
Vandalism,
Gothicism†;
mauvis gout [Fr.],
bad taste;
gaucherie,
awkwardness,
want of tact;
ill-breeding
etc.
(discourtesy)
895.
courseness
etc.
adj.†;
indecorum,
misbehavior.
lowness,
homeliness;
low life,
mauvais ton [Fr.],
rusticity;
boorishness
etc.
adj.;
brutality;
rowdyism,
blackguardism†;
ribaldry;
slang
etc.
(neology)
563.
bad joke,
mauvais plaisanterie [Fr.].
[Excess of ornament]
gaudiness,
tawdriness;
false ornament;
finery,
frippery,
trickery,
tinsel,
gewgaw,
clinquant†;
baroque,
rococo.
rough diamond,
tomboy,
hoyden,
cub,
unlicked cub†;
clown
etc.
(commonalty)
876;
Goth,
Vandal,
Boeotian;
snob,
cad,
gent;
parvenu
etc.
876;
frump,
dowdy;
slattern
etc.
653.
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Dutch: vulgariteit, onbeschaafdheid, rauwheid, ruwheid
Moby thesaurus: Babbittry, Gothicism, bad taste, barbarism, barbarousness, bombasticness, bourgeois taste, cacology, cacophony, camp, campiness, clumsiness, coarseness, colloquialism, corruption, crudeness, cumbrousness, dysphemism, gracelessness, grossness, harshness, heaviness, high camp, ill-balanced sentences, impropriety, impurity, inappropriateness, inconcinnity, incorrectness, indecency, indecorousness, indecorum, indelicacy, inelegance, inelegancy, infelicity, kitsch, lack of finish, lack of polish, leadenness, localism, low camp, philistinism, pompousness, ponderousness, poor diction, poor taste, pop, pop culture, roughness, rudeness, sesquipedalianism, sesquipedality, slang, slipshod construction, solecism, stiltedness, taboo word, tastelessness, turgidity, unaestheticism, unaestheticness, unbecomingness, uncouthness, uneuphoniousness, unfittingness, ungracefulness, unrefinement, unseemliness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, unwieldiness, vernacularism, vulgar taste, vulgarity, vulgarness ... show more.
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