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Meaning of vulgar

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  vulgar
      adj 1: lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had
             coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that
             branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human
             being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy";
             "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar
             display of the newly rich" [syn: {coarse}, {common},
             {rough-cut}, {uncouth}, {vulgar}]
      2: of or associated with the great masses of people; "the common
         people in those days suffered greatly"; "behavior that
         branded him as common"; "his square plebeian nose"; "a vulgar
         and objectionable person"; "the unwashed masses" [syn:
         {common}, {plebeian}, {vulgar}, {unwashed}]
      3: being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday
         language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular
         speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical
         and vulgar names for an animal species" [syn: {common},
         {vernacular}, {vulgar}]
      4: conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "coarse language"; "a
         crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of humor"; "a
         revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full of
         language so vulgar it should have been edited" [syn: {crude},
         {earthy}, {gross}, {vulgar}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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