Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not vulgar or common.
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- adjective Not
vulgar .
Etymologies
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Examples
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For it is drama of the vulgar as of the unvulgar -- a deep tragedy of human nature; alas! time has not made
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Various
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He was, in fact, reformed by his great commercial success to this extent, that his vices had become of the most distinguished and unvulgar grade.
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It was an eminently unvulgar, and ought to have been a very sweet, home-coming.
Tongues of Conscience Robert Smythe Hichens 1907
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Not wealth alone could purchase entrance within those sacred precincts unless, indeed, it were of sufficient magnitude and distributed with judicious and unvulgar generosity.
The Man from Glengarry; a tale of the Ottawa Ralph Connor 1898
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Still, he warmed up nicely as the show went on and in the utterly unvulgar sketch where each of them played one of
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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I can feed calves and milk and grind out my days here just as well vulgar as unvulgar, "I answered savagely.
My Brilliant Career Miles Franklin 1916
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