Vulgarian

Definitions

A vulgar individual, especially one who emphasizes or is oblivious to his or her vulgar qualities.

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Examples

“He was by this time on the deck, but he had the art to be quite unapproachable; the friendliest vulgarian, three parts drunk, would have⟳ known better than take⟳ liberties...”

“But to have⟳ spent one's youth at college, in contact⟳ with the choice and rare and precious, and yet still to be a blind prig or vulgarian, unable to scent out human excellence or to divine it amid its accidents, to know⟳ it only when ticketed and labeled and forced on us by others, this indeed should be accounted the very calamity and shipwreck of a higher education.”

“She is a bitch in heat, a mindless grinning vulgarian, and a shrewd and desperate schemer all at once.”

“Leading the attack on the president's very citizenship is the professional vulgarian Donald Trump, who gets away with the kind of preposterous, race-based comments granted few black public figures.”

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