vulgarity
Other forms: vulgarities
Vulgarity is the quality of being crude and lacking refinement. Many people consider swearing to be a form of vulgarity.
One of the criteria used in assessing a movie's rating is how much vulgarity is involved. Shows on premium cable or streaming services can generally include more vulgarity — crass language or humor, and adult situations — than shows on network television. Vulgarity comes from the Latin word vulgaris, meaning "relating to the common people" or "low and common."
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the quality of lacking taste and refinementsynonyms: coarseness, commonness, grossness, raunch, vulgarismtype of:inelegancethe quality of lacking refinement and good taste
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Former Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney made a speech about current Republican front-runner Donald Trump at the University of Utah on March 3, 2016. Romney attacks Trump over his behavior and his policies and also has some unkind words for Hillary Clinton, in order to stress that in his view Clinton must never be president. Romney regards Trump as a a con man, one whose lack of conviction makes him not only a bad candidate but one who is beatable, which makes the fact that Trump is the leading candidate to face Clinton in the general election in November all the more troubling to Romney. Here are 25 words from Romney's speech. Read the entire address here.
In this dystopian novel, written using a form of Russian-influenced slang invented by Burgess, a teenager and his friends go on a spree of unrestrained violence.