vulgarity
Roget category 851
6. Words relating to the sentient and moral› 6.2. Personal affections
›› 6.2.2. Discriminative affections
#851.
[Bad taste.]
Vulgarity
noun
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.
verb
be vulgar
etc.
adj. —
misbehave —
talk shop,
smell of the shop.
adjective
in bad taste vulgar,
unrefined.
coarse,
indecorous,
ribald,
gross —
unseemly,
unbeseeming†,
unpresentable† —
contra bonos mores [Lat.] —
ungraceful
etc.
(ugly)
846.
dowdy —
slovenly
etc.
(dirty)
653 —
ungenteel,
shabby genteel —
low,
common,
hoi polloi [Gr.],
etc.
(plebeian)
876 —
uncourtly† —
uncivil
etc.
(discourteous)
895 —
ill bred,
ill mannered —
underbred —
ungentlemanly,
ungentlemanlike —
unladylike,
unfeminine —
wild,
wild as an unbacked colt.
untutored,
unschooled
(ignorant)
491.
unkempt.
uncombed,
untamed,
unlicked†,
unpolished,
uncouth —
plebeian —
incondite† —
heavy,
rude,
awkward —
homely,
homespun,
home bred —
provincial,
countrified,
rustic —
boorish,
clownish —
savage,
brutish,
blackguard,
rowdy,
snobbish —
barbarous,
barbaric —
Gothic,
unclassical†,
doggerel,
heathenish,
tramontane,
outlandish —
uncultivated —
Bohemian.
obsolete
etc.
(antiquated)
124 —
unfashionable —
newfangled
etc.
(unfamiliar)
83 —
odd
etc.
(ridiculous)
853.
particular —
affected
etc.
855 —
meretricious —
extravagant,
monstrous,
horrid —
shocking
etc.
(painful)
830.
gaudy,
tawdry,
overornamented,
baroque,
rococo —
bedizened,
tricked out,
gingerbread —
obtrusive.
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