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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.

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Vulgarity Quotations

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

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

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

America does not want vulgarity and sexual exploitation to be our values and we do not want the world to think those are our standards. We want to be a better nation and a better people, with better standards.
Charles W. Pickering

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Vulgarity Translations

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


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