How To Use Vulgarism In A Sentence
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Orators are not improvising without adequate preparation; they are ‘winging it’ (this American vulgarism surely never arose till the 1990s?)
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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.
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Therefore all the tricks of rhetoric were used: rhymes, puns, vulgarisms and homilies.
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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.
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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
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He was an editor who hated screen violence, and vulgarisms - ‘squeamish’, she called him - and there were constant battles over her copy.
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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
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The manuscript was intended to point out and correct vulgarisms that had entered the Latin language.
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They were, I thought, vulgarisms: just fashion and status accoutrements.
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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.
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If the Board of Education wants its teachers to instruct adolescents about HIV using Latinism of the academy, excluding vulgarism of the street, it should tell them so, plainly.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause
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Elizabethan and even 18th century authors, who represent vulgarisms so frequently, do not seem to use omissions and misplacings of h's as a characteristic of low class speech.
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You are," he confided, "if you will permit the vulgarism, completely off your head.
NEVERWHERE
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It's a neat theatrical trick that sees us introduced to the intentionally harsh vulgarisms of sexual parlance.
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Oddly, in British English it is not these days a vulgarism, or at least only a very mild one.
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But Michelle can only think of vulgarisms: she stands for a generation that, like Shakespeare's Caliban, has yet to be taught a civilized language.
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IN behalf of true delicacy and womanliness, we would make an earnest protest against that quiet essence of national vulgarisms, the almost universal use of the term female as applied to woman.
The Woman's Advocate, Vol. I, No V.
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We notice with gratification that such vulgarisms as ab´do-men, pus´sl (for pust´ule!), s_w_ord (for sord), etc., no longer continue to deface the book.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864
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It's just spoken English, not just vulgarisms but slang and stuff like that.
