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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.
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Richard Brody, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2025
Richard Brody, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vulgarly
Adverb
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The third victim, Nayci said, was in the pool when Ramos-Aviles first touched her inappropriately.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
3 Sep. 2025
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Garzon did not listen as the woman again told him to stop, pulled her pants down and touched her inappropriately, prosecutors said.—
Daniella Segura,
Sacbee.com,
27 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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The manner by which the suspect in Hume’s stabbing made it to her home was also described incorrectly.—
Jose R. Gonzalez,
AZCentral.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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Others incorrectly stated that the killers had executed their plan to perfection.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
4 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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The farmer has been shouldering the greatest risks in the food value chain and the burden is getting unbearably heavy with no end in sight.—
Beth Ford,
Time,
20 Aug. 2025
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That’s pleasant compared to Mediterranean Europe, where the summer months are increasingly dry and unbearably hot, with temperatures regularly surpassing 40°C (104°F) and devastating wildfires a constant threat.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
4 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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At times on Saturday, Bremen were terribly naive, exhibiting all the fragility expected of a team built from inexperienced players.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
2 Sep. 2025
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That being said, these two companies don't have high yields because of terribly large payouts, which do significantly increase each year with earnings, but rather weakness in their stocks.—
Morgan Chittum,
CNBC,
29 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Sometimes prosthetics are required, or fake teeth, or horribly unflattering wigs.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
6 Sep. 2025
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Timing that shortest of all short windows between when an avocado is hard as rock and horribly black and squishy has become one of the millennium’s many small trials in life (for avocado fans at least).—
Mark Faithfull,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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New York Yankees captain Aaron Judge is climbing the home run leaderboard awfully quickly.—
Jackson Roberts,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
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For a movie about a man running from the emptiness within, Ballad of a Small Player rings awfully hollow.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Tesla critics say that the stock has become grossly overvalued because of Wall Street’s willingness to buy into Musk’s vision of the future in terms of AI, self-driving vehicles and robots, despite its failures to deliver on past promises along those lines.—
Chris Isidore,
CNN Money,
5 Sep. 2025
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While healthcare broadly has grossly underperformed the market (about 40% to the S&P 500’s doubling) in that time, BMY has been even worse, sitting on about 25% in red ink on a price basis, and a 10% loss even with dividends included.—
Brett Owens,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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“Vulgarly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vulgarly. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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