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  • adjective comparative form of vulgar: more vulgar

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Examples

  • For man is not, as the vulgarer hedonists seem to suppose, a kind of walking stomach; he has also got a hand, an eye, and a brain.

    The Road to Wigan Pier 2004

  • Man's vulgarer ambition's not just to play well and win;

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, January 31, 1891 Various

  • First of all these types are Sir Gorgius Midas -- who, the artist once confided to me, was drawn without exaggeration from real life -- and his common wife and still vulgarer son.

    The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

  • For man is not, as the vulgarer hedonists seem to suppose, a kind of walking stomach; he has also got a hand, an eye, and a brain.

    The Road to Wigan Pier 1937

  • She liked it, too, when they came to the vulgarer part of the town and the place assumed the strange ceremented air that a pleasure city wears in winter.

    The Judge Rebecca West 1937

  • Behind the coarseness and the threatenings, the melodrama and the display of the vulgarer sort there arises a great and noble people ....

    The Research Magnificent 1906

  • He had expected something of a vulgarer and rougher type.

    The Case of Richard Meynell Humphry Ward 1885

  • He then was to be for her, in the future, the mere symbol of the vulgarer pleasures and opportunities, while Warkworth held her heart?

    Lady Rose's Daughter Humphry Ward 1885

  • But everything was in an exquisite taste which vulgarer generations have never yet succeeded in imitating.

    The Last Hope Henry Seton Merriman 1882

  • But everything was in an exquisite taste which vulgarer generations have never yet succeeded in imitating.

    The Last Hope Henry Seton Merriman 1882

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