vulgarity
noun
1 vulgarity
The quality of lacking taste and refinement.
synonyms: coarseness, commonness, grossness, raunch, vulgarism.
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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Roget 895:
discourtesy;
ill breeding;
ill manners,
bad manners,
ungainly manners;
insuavity†;
uncourteousness†,
etc.
adj.;
rusticity,
inurbanity†;
illiberality,
incivility displacency†.
disrespect
etc.
929;
procacity†,
impudence: barbarism,
barbarity;
misbehavior,
brutality,
blackguardism†,
conduct unbecoming a gentleman,
grossieret_e,
brusquerie†;
vulgarity,
etc.
851.
churlishness
etc.
adj.;
spinosity†,
perversity;
moroseness
etc.
(sullenness)
901.1.
sternness
etc.
adj.;
austerity;
moodishness†,
captiousness
etc.
901;
cynicism;
tartness
etc.
adj.;
acrimony,
acerbity,
virulence,
asperity.
scowl,
black looks,
frown;
short answer,
rebuff;
hard words,
contumely;
unparliamentary language,
personality.
bear,
bruin,
brute,
blackguard,
beast;
unlicked cub†;
frump,
crosspatch†;
saucebox
etc.
887†;
crooked stick;
grizzly.
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Roget 563:
neology,
neologism;
newfangled expression,
nonce expression;
back-formation;
caconym†;
barbarism.
archaism,
black letter,
monkish Latin.
corruption,
missaying†,
malapropism,
antiphrasis†.
pun,
paranomasia†,
play upon words;
word play
etc.
(wit)
842;
double-entendre [Fr.]
etc.
(ambiguity)
520;
palindrome,
paragram†,
anagram,
clinch;
abuse of language,
abuse of terms.
dialect,
brogue,
idiom,
accent,
patois;
provincialism,
regionalism,
localism;
broken English,
lingua franca;
Anglicism,
Briticism,
Gallicism,
Scotticism,
Hibernicism;
Americanism†;
Gypsy lingo,
Romany;
pidgin,
pidgin English,
pigeon English;
Volapuk,
Chinook,
Esperanto,
Hindustani,
kitchen Kaffir.
dog Latin,
macaronics†,
gibberish;
confusion of tongues,
Babel;
babu English†,
chi-chi.
figure of speech
etc.
(metaphor)
521;
byword.
colloquialism,
informal speech,
informal language.
substandard language,
vernacular.
vulgar language,
obscene language,
obscenity,
vulgarity.
jargon,
technical terms,
technicality,
lingo,
slang,
cant,
argot;
St. Gile's Greek,
thieves' Latin,
peddler's French,
flash tongue,
Billingsgate,
Wall Street slang.
pseudology†.
pseudonym
etc.
(misnomer)
565;
Mr.
So-and-so;
wha d'ye call 'em†,
whatchacallim,
what's his name;
thingummy†,
thingumbob;
je ne sais quoi [Fr.].
neologist†,
coiner of words.
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Dutch: vulgariteit, onbeschaafdheid, rauwheid, ruwheid
Moby thesaurus: Gothicism, bad manners, bad taste, barbarism, barbarousness, baseness, bombasticness, cacology, cacophony, caddishness, clumsiness, coarseness, crudeness, cumbrousness, deficiency, discourteousness, discourtesy, dysphemism, earthiness, failure, fewness, filthiness, foulness, frankness, gaucherie, gracelessness, gross behavior, grossness, harshness, heaviness, humbleness, ignobility, ill breeding, ill manners, ill-balanced sentences, imperfection, impoliteness, impropriety, impurity, inadequacy, incivility, incompetence, inconcinnity, inconsiderateness, incorrectness, indecorousness, indelicacy, inelegance, inelegancy, infelicity, insensitivity, insufficiency, inurbanity, lack of finish, lack of polish, lack of refinement, leadenness, lewdness, littleness, loutishness, maladroitness, mannerlessness, meanness, mediocrity, obscenity, offensiveness, pettiness, pompousness, ponderousness, poor diction, raciness, rankness, rawness, roughness, rudeness, saltiness, sesquipedalianism, sesquipedality, shabbiness, slipshod construction, smallness, spiciness, stiltedness, subnormality, tactlessness, tastelessness, tawdriness, triviality, turgidity, uncourtliness, uncouthness, uneuphoniousness, ungallantness, ungentlemanliness, ungracefulness, ungraciousness, unmannerliness, unpoliteness, unrefinement, unseemliness, unskillfulness, unsolicitousness, unsophistication, unwieldiness, vileness, vulgarism ... show more.
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