vulgarising

Stephen Bayley, the culture critic, and John Goodall, architectural editor of Country Life magazine, accused him of "vulgarising" properties by putting on events that attempt to reconstruct the past.

Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

Stephen Bayley, the culture critic, and John Goodall, architectural editor of Country Life magazine, accused him of "vulgarising" properties by putting on events that attempt to reconstruct the past.

Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

After their death attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonise them, to hallow their names while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarising it.

Matthew Yglesias » King and Nonviolence 2009

From this system I should not like to depart; as far as I can see, Indiscriminate visiting tends only to a waste of time and a vulgarising of character.

The Life of Charlotte Bronte 2002

Haworth Parsonage, with books for my household companions, and an occasional letter for a visitor; a mute society, but neither quarrelsome, nor vulgarising, nor unimproving.

The Life of Charlotte Bronte 2002

'Varsities will murder the language, debase the currency of manners, mumble unchecked of "libery," and "Febuery," and "seckertery," and in many other barbarous ways betray the vulgarising influence of culture.

The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various

It is indeed a serious and difficult problem; and it is one of the problems thrust inevitably upon us by the spread of education and the consequent cheapening and vulgarising of education under the influence of democracy.

Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations John Cowper Powys 1917

The tide of tourists that flows yearly in Scotland, vulgarising all where it approaches, is still defined by certain barriers.

Records of a Family of Engineers 1912

I am holding no brief for many English editors; I think that our papers can be common too, and can be too ready to take things by the wrong handle; but I think that more vulgarising of life is, at present, effected by American journalists than by English.

Roving East and Roving West 1903

"The best spiritual work of criticism is to keep man from self-satisfaction which is retarding and vulgarising, to lead him towards perfection by making his mind dwell upon what is excellent in itself, and the absolute beauty and fitness of things."

Essays in Rebellion Henry W. Nevinson 1900