Definitions for: Vulgarism


[n] the quality of lacking taste and refinement
[n] obscene word or phrase



Webster (1913) Definition: Vul"gar*ism, n. [Cf. F. vulgarisme.]
1. Grossness; rudeness; vulgarity.

2. A vulgar phrase or expression.

A fastidious taste will find offense in the
occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call
``slang,'' which not a few of our writers seem to
have affected. --Coleridge.

Synonyms: coarseness, commonness, grossness, obscenity, vulgarity

See Also: bawdry, bawdy, inelegance, profanity, scatology

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