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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.
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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.
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Armond White,
National Review,
10 June 2022
Because clever vulgarians are always trying to outwit state technology, the program also scans the messages backward.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Piercarlo Valdesolo,
Scientific American,
5 Apr. 2016
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.
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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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We’d be laughed at and called ignorant boors!
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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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In general, the band members’ musical Venn diagram includes anything that has big energy and a loudmouth spirit.
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There was a Queen Bee, a loudmouth, a nerd, a jock, and more than a few basket cases.
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The league’s most popular player has become its biggest lout.
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Suddenly, these two louts are forced to support themselves for the first time.
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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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The group demonstrated near the Washington Monument and was met by a few counter protestors, one of which played clown music throughout the majority of the demonstration.
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But many did not, as the 1981 episodes tell the grim tale of a young girl named Sylvia (Barash), who is raped by a stranger wearing a horrifying clown mask.
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Circe The formidable Circe is, at first, an antagonist, turning Odysseus’s men into swine and attempting to enchant Odysseus as well.
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Several Ramona elementary schools Transitional-Kindergarten and kindergarten students visited the farm and rotated through hands-on learning stations that included cattle, sheep and goats, swine, greenhouse activities and agricultural mechanics demonstrations.
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The world drew heavily from the paintings of fantasy illustrator Frank Frazetta, who depicted scenes of barbarians and beasts in conflict, of pulp fiction heroes, femme fatales, and fierce warrior women.
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To an outsider, the scene may spark a certain Schadenfreude, like an army of tiny barbarians sacking Rome.
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This arrangement worked well until the vine-killing louse made its way from Bordeaux to Rioja and destroyed the vineyards there, which upended the region’s industry for decades.
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Soaking in the warm water may disrupt louse activity or egg placement within their fur.
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“Vulgarian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vulgarian. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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