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VULGAR

common, vernacular, vulgar - a 
being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species" 

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Synonyms

boorish, coarse, crude, disgusting, filthy, impolite, indecent, nasty, naughty, obscene, off-color, profane, ribald, scatological, suggestive, tasteless, tawdry

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Examples

But this seems an unwarrantable concession to the vulgar opinion that two bodies cannot co-exist in the same place.

Women should always assert themselves when possible and seek help if their tattoo (or any other physical feature) begins to warrant threats, slurs, or other forms of vulgar behavior.

They soon discovered that the name Mighty Joe Young was already taken, and so they switch to a somewhat vulgar name including the name Shirley Temple.

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Etymology

late 14c., "common, ordinary," from Latin vulgaris, volgaris "of or pertaining to the common people, common, vulgar, low, mean," from vulgus, volgus "the common people, multitude, crowd, throng," for which de Vaan offers no further etymology.

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