VULGARLY Synonyms: 84 Similar and Opposite Words

vulgarly

adverb

Definition of vulgarly

as in inappropriately

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Recent Examples of vulgarly The movie vulgarly sexualizes youthful political ardor and, even more contemptibly, the very notion of racial justice. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for vulgarly

Adverb

The attempt by former HFPA members to leverage the Golden Globe Foundation, an independent nonprofit, simply to secure Golden Globes tickets is an unfortunate distraction that inappropriately diverts resources from legitimate charitable causes.

— Ted Johnson, Deadline, 28 July 2026
The mother wrote in the complaint that Duffey had convinced her daughter to come to his hotel room on a trip and touched her inappropriately, sent her inappropriate messages and paid her to stay quiet about it.

— Rachel Hale, USA Today, 28 July 2026

Definition of inappropriately

Adverb

Reuters — The US Federal Aviation Administration said on Monday that seats on hundreds of Boeing 737 MAX jets registered in the US were incorrectly installed and need to be fixed.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 28 July 2026
Senior engineering judgment—the ability to spot a bad architecture, understand why a system will fail under load, know when a business rule has been encoded incorrectly—has always been built through years of junior-level struggle.

— Vaibhav Gujral, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026

Definition of incorrectly

Adverb

Caleb Crawford was incarcerated in 2016 after indecently touching his cousin, a 12-year-old girl at the time.

— Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 June 2026
Like in a bombing, a tsunami or earthquake also makes the private suddenly, almost indecently, public.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 June 2026

Definition of indecently

Adverb

It has been called the most reprehensibly racist film in Hollywood history.

— Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 7 Feb. 2026
Logan, who comes across as an even more fervent Barry Pepper, is the most convincing of the actors left to sell characters who say and do reprehensibly offensive things but turn out to be decent people.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2025

Definition of reprehensibly

Adverb

As detailed in the 2026 Clock Statement, the risks to civilization are intolerably high.

— Daniel Holz, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026
The data doesn’t show how many Texans were automatically re-enrolled — and who might unenroll if their premiums rose intolerably.

— Sasha Richie, Dallas Morning News, 16 Jan. 2026

Definition of intolerably

Adverb

The eastern United States endured an unbearably hot early July that forced communities to cancel Independence Day celebrations and disrupted the country’s 250th anniversary.

— Michael Phillis, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2026
The clutter ebbs and flows like the tide, reflecting the chaos of spaces where artists live, often homes just on the cusp between quaint and unbearably chaotic.

— Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 21 July 2026

Definition of unbearably

Adverb

Given that humans at OpenAI had decided to turn off some safeguards for the test, some have argued the outcome should not have been terribly surprising.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 July 2026
In a world that had long equated labor with the physical act of making things, such a shift was seen as not terribly manly, and potentially dangerous to society as a whole.

— Jake Lundberg, The Atlantic, 23 July 2026