vulgarity

Roget-categorie 851

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.2. Personal affections
›› 6.2.2. Discriminative affections

#851. [Bad taste.] Vulgarity

zelfstandig naamwoord

vulgarity, vulgarism — barbarism, Vandalism, Gothicism^† — mauvis gout [Fr.], bad taste — gaucherie, awkwardness, want of tact — ill-breeding etc. (discourtesy) 895.
courseness etc. adj.^† — indecorum, misbehavior.
lowness, homeliness — low life, mauvais ton [Fr.], rusticity — boorishness etc. adj. — brutality — rowdyism, blackguardism^† — ribaldry — slang etc. (neology) 563.
bad joke, mauvais plaisanterie [Fr.].
[Excess of ornament] gaudiness, tawdriness — false ornament — finery, frippery, trickery, tinsel, gewgaw, clinquant^† — baroque, rococo.
rough diamond, tomboy, hoyden, cub, unlicked cub^† — clown etc. (commonalty) 876 — Goth, Vandal, Boeotian — snob, cad, gent — parvenu etc. 876 — frump, dowdy — slattern etc. 653.

werkwoord

be vulgar etc. adj. — misbehave — talk shop, smell of the shop.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

in bad taste vulgar, unrefined.
coarse, indecorous, ribald, gross — unseemly, unbeseeming^†, unpresentable^† — contra bonos mores [Lat.] — ungraceful etc. (ugly) 846.
dowdy — slovenly etc. (dirty) 653 — ungenteel, shabby genteel — low, common, hoi polloi [Gr.], etc. (plebeian) 876 — uncourtly^† — uncivil etc. (discourteous) 895 — ill bred, ill mannered — underbred — ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike — unladylike, unfeminine — wild, wild as an unbacked colt.
untutored, unschooled (ignorant) 491.
unkempt.
uncombed, untamed, unlicked^†, unpolished, uncouth — plebeian — incondite^† — heavy, rude, awkward — homely, homespun, home bred — provincial, countrified, rustic — boorish, clownish — savage, brutish, blackguard, rowdy, snobbish — barbarous, barbaric — Gothic, unclassical^†, doggerel, heathenish, tramontane, outlandish — uncultivated — Bohemian.
obsolete etc. (antiquated) 124 — unfashionable — newfangled etc. (unfamiliar) 83 — odd etc. (ridiculous) 853.
particular — affected etc. 855 — meretricious — extravagant, monstrous, horrid — shocking etc. (painful) 830.
gaudy, tawdry, overornamented, baroque, rococo — bedizened, tricked out, gingerbread — obtrusive.

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