vulgarity

vulgarity
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Bad taste
Nouns
1. vulgarity, vulgarism; barbarism; offense, bad taste; inelegance, indelicacy; gaucherie, ill breeding, discourtesy, incivility; coarseness, indecorum, boorishness; rowdyism, blackguardism; ribaldry, obscenity, pornography; risqué story, double entendre.
2. (vulgar taste) gaudiness, tawdriness, finery, frippery, brummagem, tinsel, gewgaws, knickknacks (see ostentation).
3. (vulgar person) vulgarian, rough diamond; tomboy, hoyden, cub, unlicked cub; lout, churl, knave, clown, cad, roughneck, barbarian; snob, parvenu, frump, slattern, slut. Informal, bounder. Slang, pain in the ass, derriere, or neck, siwash, redneck, snot.
Verbs — offend, coarsen, vulgarize; misbehave, roughhouse. Slang, gross out.
Adjectives
1. vulgar, in bad taste, crass, crude; distasteful, fulsome, unrefined, coarse, indecorous, ribald, gross; unseemly, unpresentable; common, boisterous, loud, rough and ready; tasteless, obnoxious; backwoods.
2. uncourtly; uncivil, discourteous, ill-bred, bad-mannered, ill-mannered; ungentlemanly, unladylike, unfeminine; unkempt, uncombed, frowzy, unpolished, uncouth, rude, savage, blackguard, rowdy, barbarous, barbaric; low, vile, ignoble, monstrous, shocking; obscene. See populace.
3. (vulgarly flashy) bizarre, outré, outlandish; affected, meretricious, ostentatious, extravagant; gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy; cheap; shoddy; obtrusive; dressed like a dog's dinner.
Quotation — Vulgarity has its uses (Max Beerbohm), Nothing is more vulgar than haste (Emerson), You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner (Aristophanes).
Antonyms, see taste.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
Syn. impudence, discourtesy, crudity, indecency; see rudeness .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
1. crudeness coarseness, lack of refinement, roughness, ill manners, bad manners, rudeness, boorishness, grossness, impoliteness.
2. obscenity expletive, swear word, four-letter word, profanity, smut, pornography.
ANT.: 1. refinement, good manners, tact
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. The quality or state of being obscene: bawdiness, coarseness, dirtiness, filthiness, foulness, grossness, lewdness, obscenity, profaneness, profanity, scurrility, scurrilousness, smut-tiness, vulgarness. Slang: raunch, raunchiness. See DECENT. 2. Something that is offensive to accepted standards of decency: bawdry, dirt, filth, obscenity, profanity, ribaldry, scatology, smut. Slang: raunch. See DECENT.

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