vulgarity

N ความหยาบ คาย  ความต่ำช้า  coarseness ribaldry decency modesty kwam-yab-kai

VULGARITY

n. 1. Mean condition in life; the state of the lower classes of society.
2. Grossness or clownishness of manners or language; as vulgarity of behavior; vulgarity of expression or language.

VULGARITY

Vul *gar "i *ty, n. Etym: [Cf. F. vulgarité, L. vulgaritas the multitude. ]

vulgarity

vul ¦gar |ity |vʌlˈgarɪti | ▶noun ( pl. vulgarities ) [ mass noun ] the state or quality of being vulgar: he was seen as the embodiment of the vulgarity of the 1980s. • [ count noun ] a vulgar remark or act: his letters were full of vulgarities.

vulgarity

vulgarity noun 1 he avoided vulgarity and innuendo: rudeness, crudity, indecency, indelicacy, offensiveness, suggestiveness, bawdiness, ribaldry, obscenity, lewdness, salaciousness, licentiousness, depravity, sordidness, smuttiness, dirtiness, filthiness, smut, dirt, filth, pornography; profanity, blasphemy, swearing, bad language, strong language, foulness, abusiveness, scurrilousness; informal raunchiness, raunch, sleaziness, sleaze, porn, blueness; Brit. informal fruitiness, sauciness; rare concupiscence, bawdry, salacity. ANTONYMS decency. 2 she thought the quantities of gilt were evidence of shocking vulgarity: tastelessness, bad taste, grossness, crassness, lack of refinement, tawdriness, flamboyance, flamboyancy, ostentation, excess, gaudiness, garishness, showiness, flashiness, brassiness, tinsel, kitsch, loudness, harshness; informal tackiness, swankiness, swank, glitziness. ANTONYMS tastefulness, restraint. 3 her mother was free from any trace of vulgarity: impoliteness, ill manners, bad manners, impropriety, grossness, indecorousness, uncouthness, crudeness, coarseness, roughness; commonness, lowness, unsophisticatedness, lack of refinement, lack of sophistication; informal ignorance. ANTONYMS gentility, decorum.

vulgarity

vul gar i ty /vʌlɡǽrəti /名詞 複 -ties 1 U 下品, 野卑, 悪趣味, 俗悪 .2 C 〖しばしば -ties 〗下品 [野卑 ]な行為 [言葉 ].