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Recent Examples of vulgarity That’s almost criminal in a social world of implication, subtext, and discretion, and one prepared to punish its own over the slightest whiff of vulgarity, real or imagined. Elle Carroll, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2025 There’s a lot of vulgarity, but also a lot of other stuff. Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 8 Aug. 2025 The medieval ideal suggests superstition, ignorance, vulgarity, restlessness, cruelty and religion—all of which fill my soul with horror and loathing. Henry Wiencek july 22, Literary Hub, 22 July 2025 Instead, her collages vividly recount a seemingly joyous journey of people with their children and animals, devoid of vulgarity, theft, squalor, and other Roma stereotypes. Melissa Harris, Artforum, 10 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for vulgarity
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vulgarity
Noun
  • If senior figures display rudeness or disrespect, employees may assume that such behavior is acceptable, making selective enforcement seem arbitrary and undermining of trust.
    Andrew Binns, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • With nearly 400 responses recounting long waits for a check to outright rudeness, customers detailed what pushes them from their usual tipping habits to a complete cutoff.
    Darlin Tillery, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Brain rot has become unavoidable, its grossness ubiquitous.
    Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • There’s some rudeness, aggressive conversations, and crudeness, but nothing too over the top.
    Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Some of us yelled obscenities instead.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Since Missouri vanity plates have to follow the state obscenity law, a court would need to find that the state law violates the First Amendment.
    Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The referee threw a flag on the play, calling a 15-yard unnecessary roughness penalty on Tart.
    Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Speaking to the media Monday ahead of the Chiefs’ game against the Philadelphia Eagles, Reid was asked about the NFL rule that called for an unnecessary roughness penalty as opposed to an automatic suspension.
    Paulina Dedaj, FOXNews.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • An alkaline compound, baking soda is a non-toxic cleaner with a coarseness that works wonders for scrubbing grime, removing difficult stains, and deodorizing stinky odors.
    Lauren David, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The coarseness of your grounds is determined by the width of the space between the two grinding burrs.
    BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • If one employee spots profanity or offensive language in an application, then it is sent to another employee, and possibly moved up the chain.
    Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Ellis then claimed that Cardi cut her face with a fingernail and spat on her while yelling profanity and racial slurs at Ellis.
    Charna Flam, People.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But Shelly will still go on about the crudity of newer shows in town, insisting that Razzle Dazzle has an elegant French tone.
    Tom Gliatto, People.com, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Although Günther Groissböck cleaned up better than the usual Ochs, his portrayal lacked nothing for crudity.
    Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2023

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“Vulgarity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vulgarity. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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