adjective
lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
Synonyms
Examples
- he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind
- behavior that branded him as common
- an untutored and uncouth human being
- an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy
- appealing to the vulgar taste for violence
- the vulgar display of the newly rich
adjective
of or associated with the great masses of people
Synonyms
Examples
- the common people in those days suffered greatly
- behavior that branded him as common
- his square plebeian nose
- a vulgar and objectionable person
- the unwashed masses
adjective
being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
Synonyms
Examples
- common parlance
- a vernacular term
- vernacular speakers
- the vulgar tongue of the masses
- the technical and vulgar names for an animal species
adjective
conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
Synonyms
Examples
- coarse language
- a crude joke
- crude behavior
- an earthy sense of humor
- a revoltingly gross expletive
- a vulgar gesture
- full of language so vulgar it should have been edited