vulgarism

How To Use vulgarism In A Sentence

• Orators are not improvising without adequate preparation; they are ‘winging it’ (this American vulgarism surely never arose till the 1990s?)
• In the history of genre-study or formalism, the Essay deserves a mention, particularly for its inclusiveness: prose, dialect, vulgarisms, and the low are all in.
• Therefore all the tricks of rhetoric were used: rhymes, puns, vulgarisms and homilies.
• Objecting to the tenderness and aloofness of humor and the vulgarism of humor, Lu Xun advocated a new concept of humor to criticize the reality, improve the work, and enliven life.
• If, perchance, they possess any excellence above their society, they consider it as a redeeming grace for their importunities, and, calculating on the vulgarism _ad captandum_, that what is dearest bought is most prized, they make their friends pay freely for their admiration. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 277, October 13, 1827
• He was an editor who hated screen violence, and vulgarisms - ‘squeamish’, she called him - and there were constant battles over her copy.
• In _lanthorn_, another word adduced by Mr. White, the _h_ is a vulgarism of spelling introduced to give meaning to a foreign word, the termination being supposed to be derived from the material (horn) of which lanterns were formerly made, -- like _Bully Ruffian_ for _Bellerophon_ in our time, and The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859
• The manuscript was intended to point out and correct vulgarisms that had entered the Latin language.
• They were, I thought, vulgarisms: just fashion and status accoutrements.
• The language that he described as American was full of regional variation, new words borrowed from immigrant groups, figurative usage from such institutions as railroading and baseball, jaunty slang, and raucous vulgarisms.