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Recent Examples of vulgarian
Screenwriters, who were treated by the front office as the disposable help, got a measure of revenge by portraying their employers as idiots or vulgarians whose sole role in filmmaking was to write the checks and gum up the works.
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Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 20 Apr. 2025
The result is the worst of both worlds: Washington is still pursuing a misguided grand strategy, but now with an incompetent vulgarian in the White House.
—Stephen M. Walt, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2019
Not even the threat of a belligerent vulgarian named Shaggy Beard (Paul Kaye) as a prospective husband can derail the cheekiness.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2022
Their doom is predicted in De France’s perfect stone face and Depardieu’s worldly vulgarian; both personify the manipulation of naïveté and innocence.
—Armond White, National Review, 10 June 2022
This finding can serve as a nice empirical middle-finger from vulgarians everywhere, directed at those who had, until now, been unfairly judging them for their linguistic abilities.
—Piercarlo Valdesolo, Scientific American, 5 Apr. 2016
Because clever vulgarians are always trying to outwit state technology, the program also scans the messages backward.
—Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019
Accordingly, Post marched her readers through the various types of dressers — the vulgarian, the unnoticeable, the sheep, and the greatest of all: The Woman Who Is Really Chic — as well as the proper dress for all settings.
—Constance Grady, Vox, 27 June 2019
Mark Lewis Jones plays Thomas Griffiths, a gruff vulgarian partnered with the pious Thomas Howell (Michael Jibson) at Smalls Lighthouse, about 20 miles off the coast.
—Noel Murray, latimes.com, 5 July 2018
Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 20 Apr. 2025
The result is the worst of both worlds: Washington is still pursuing a misguided grand strategy, but now with an incompetent vulgarian in the White House.
—Stephen M. Walt, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2019
Not even the threat of a belligerent vulgarian named Shaggy Beard (Paul Kaye) as a prospective husband can derail the cheekiness.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2022
Their doom is predicted in De France’s perfect stone face and Depardieu’s worldly vulgarian; both personify the manipulation of naïveté and innocence.
—Armond White, National Review, 10 June 2022
This finding can serve as a nice empirical middle-finger from vulgarians everywhere, directed at those who had, until now, been unfairly judging them for their linguistic abilities.
—Piercarlo Valdesolo, Scientific American, 5 Apr. 2016
Because clever vulgarians are always trying to outwit state technology, the program also scans the messages backward.
—Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019
Accordingly, Post marched her readers through the various types of dressers — the vulgarian, the unnoticeable, the sheep, and the greatest of all: The Woman Who Is Really Chic — as well as the proper dress for all settings.
—Constance Grady, Vox, 27 June 2019
Mark Lewis Jones plays Thomas Griffiths, a gruff vulgarian partnered with the pious Thomas Howell (Michael Jibson) at Smalls Lighthouse, about 20 miles off the coast.
—Noel Murray, latimes.com, 5 July 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vulgarian
Noun
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For their part, the Russians considered the Mizrahim—indeed, most Israelis—loud, uncultured boors.—
Judith Shulevitz,
The Atlantic,
5 Oct. 2024
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Trucco brings a sleazy menace to Rufus, an arrogant boor who underestimates how far Madeline and Roderick will go to usurp him.—
Kristen Baldwin,
EW.com,
9 Oct. 2023
Noun
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All the characters from the flat screen were alive in 3-D. The loudmouth and future American President Stephen A. Smith was taller than expected, hamming it up with Jayden Daniels, the former Louisiana State University Tiger and N.F.L. Offensive Rookie of the Year—area man made good.—
Nick Paumgarten,
The New Yorker,
3 Mar. 2025
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Over decades of prolific stand-up, Burr projected the persona of the loudmouth ranting at the end of the bar.—
Jason Zinoman,
New York Times,
25 Feb. 2025
Noun
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There’s at least one major shoe that could drop — why devote an entire episode to the Gemstone origin story if that gold Bible isn’t going to pay off somehow? — but The Righteous Gemstones loves these grotesque, dysfunctional louts.—
Scott Tobias,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2025
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And when someone does cross the line, like the louts who doused cops in Harlem and Brownsville with water in 2019, most officers have shown remarkable restraint.—
Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
4 Feb. 2024
Noun
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Fans can also look forward to performances by the iconic Silver Spurs Quadrille, the adorable antics of kids competing in Mutton Bustin’, and plenty of laughs courtesy of the ever-entertaining rodeo clowns.—
Joe Rassel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 May 2025
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His wife, Susan, a sweet woman with short grey hair, worked as a dental hygienist and performed as a clown named Jubilee at hospitals, nursing homes, parties — even the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.—
Jennifer Berry Hawes,
ProPublica,
19 May 2025
Noun
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As Beau, Brake is tall and gaunt, with burning eyes, a rotter who looks like Steve Buscemi crossed with David Byrne crossed with a human rattlesnake who’s a lifelong junkie.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
10 May 2024
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Some experts say bed rotters are onto something, but there may be a right way to think about it.—
BYAlexa Mikhail,
Fortune Well,
10 July 2023
Noun
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Both swine and avian influenza are strains of influenza A.—
Hanna D. Paton,
The Conversation,
15 Apr. 2025
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Many states have regulations or laws about trapping and releasing feral swine, for example, in order to help reduce the spread.—
Alan Clemons,
Outdoor Life,
20 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The colonized lands are conceptualized of as virgin or empty, or populated by savages and barbarians who amount to less-than-human types who must make way for the settlers.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
21 May 2025
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The barbarians are all those who hate human nature, all those who trample upon the sense of the sacred, all those who do not value life, all those who rebel against God the Creator of man and nature.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Call him a lush, a louse, a putz, a schmuck, a sad-sack, and a dumb-SOB and all would apply.—
Ben Croll,
IndieWire,
19 May 2025
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The vines did not survive, however, probably due to the presence of phylloxera, the vine louse, in the soil.—
Per and Britt Karlsson,
Forbes.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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“Vulgarian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vulgarian. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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