Definition of Vulgarity

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Definition of Vulgarity
	Vulgarity The quality or state of being vulgar; mean condition of life; the state of the lower classes of society. Grossness or clownishness of manners of language; absence of refinement; coarseness. Related Definitions: Absence, Being, Classes, Clownishness, Coarseness, Condition, Grossness, Language, Life, Lower, Mean, Of, Or, Quality, Refinement, Society, State, The, Vulgar

Vulgarity Quotations

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
Coco Chanel

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
Oscar Wilde

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
Arthur Schopenhauer

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.
John Ruskin

Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.
Vladimir Nabokov

I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity.
Julian Clary

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
E. M. Forster

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.
Doris Day

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.
Cyril Connolly

Vulgarity Translations

vulgarity in German is Gemeinheit
vulgarity in Spanish is vulgaridad
vulgarity in Swedish is vulgaritet

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