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Recent Examples of vulgarian
Screenwriters, who were treated by the front office as the disposable help, got a measure of revenge by portraying their employers as idiots or vulgarians whose sole role in filmmaking was to write the checks and gum up the works.
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Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 20 Apr. 2025
Not even the threat of a belligerent vulgarian named Shaggy Beard (Paul Kaye) as a prospective husband can derail the cheekiness.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2022
Their doom is predicted in De France’s perfect stone face and Depardieu’s worldly vulgarian; both personify the manipulation of naïveté and innocence.
—Armond White, National Review, 10 June 2022
Because clever vulgarians are always trying to outwit state technology, the program also scans the messages backward.
—Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019
Accordingly, Post marched her readers through the various types of dressers — the vulgarian, the unnoticeable, the sheep, and the greatest of all: The Woman Who Is Really Chic — as well as the proper dress for all settings.
—Constance Grady, Vox, 27 June 2019
The result is the worst of both worlds: Washington is still pursuing a misguided grand strategy, but now with an incompetent vulgarian in the White House.
—Stephen M. Walt, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2019
Mark Lewis Jones plays Thomas Griffiths, a gruff vulgarian partnered with the pious Thomas Howell (Michael Jibson) at Smalls Lighthouse, about 20 miles off the coast.
—Noel Murray, latimes.com, 5 July 2018
This finding can serve as a nice empirical middle-finger from vulgarians everywhere, directed at those who had, until now, been unfairly judging them for their linguistic abilities.
—Piercarlo Valdesolo, Scientific American, 5 Apr. 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vulgarian
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Now, if the board is made up of more boors than just the one, this may not be a workable solution.—
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For their part, the Russians considered the Mizrahim—indeed, most Israelis—loud, uncultured boors.—
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Despite the nickname, Meathead existed largely as a moral counterbalance to Archie, a bigoted, lovable loudmouth who battled with the younger generation over all the ways the times were a-changin’.—
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Redbird is the life of the party: a loudmouth and mischievous guy.—
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Suddenly, these two louts are forced to support themselves for the first time.—
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The drunken louts who mocked and obscenely jeered the European Ryder Cup contenders at last weekend’s event at Bethpage Black golf course on Long Island would have loved it.—
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As Beau, Brake is tall and gaunt, with burning eyes, a rotter who looks like Steve Buscemi crossed with David Byrne crossed with a human rattlesnake who’s a lifelong junkie.—
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Some experts say bed rotters are onto something, but there may be a right way to think about it.—
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Brewer depicts the world of music impersonators with a fair amount of affection, like the rodeo clowns of late 20th-century America.—
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Cirque du Soleil is known for its shows featuring acrobats, athletes and clowns – all doing spectacular feats.—
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Visitors can attend shows for cattle, swine, goats, sheep, horses, donkeys and poultry.—
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Moreover, the purification and refining process works with many types of biowaste, notably food, sewage sludge, algal bloom, swine manure, and agricultural residue.—
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Per this year’s edition of AIR MAIL’s annual Over-Under List, caviar bumps—where barbarians (TikTokers) lick precious fish eggs off the back of their hands like table salt before a gag-inducing tequila shot—are out!—
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We were inspired by their outrageous VHS cover art that promised epic tales of heroic barbarians rescuing buxom babes from giant monsters.—
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No, the convolution of the weaving story and a principal character who is such a louse can be grating.—
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One of my favorites is the tongue louse, which usually comes in through the gills of the host fish (something like a red snapper), eats the tongue, and then takes its place.—
Cite this Entry
“Vulgarian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vulgarian. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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