How to Use vulgar in a Sentence

vulgar

adjective
  • He was a vulgar man.
  • She had a coarse, vulgar laugh.
  • I will not tolerate such vulgar language in my home.
  • Her husband says that's a very vulgar pet.
    — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 28 May 2026
  • In metaphor, vinegar tends to get a bad, or at least a vulgar, rap.
    — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Lewd and vulgar language is banned.
    — Matt Schooley, CBS News, 14 Mar. 2026
  • And yet the world turns out not to work on these merrily vulgar lines.
    — Douglas Murray, National Review, 20 Feb. 2020
  • Making vulgar jokes pulled me out of drowning in my own self-pity.
    — Eve Peyser, Cosmopolitan, 27 Apr. 2016
  • The man who had thought beer the most vulgar of drink confused it with champagne.
    — Ignacio Peyró, National Geographic, 18 June 2019
  • The men would make vulgar comments to her, or about her, even in her presence.
    — Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Nov. 2024
  • Rogers was told not to use such vulgar language, but that was it, Burns said.
    — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Adams got rid of her remains and described her to others in vulgar terms.
    — Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 11 Sep. 2017
  • My friend asked what my thoughts were on a vulgar subject and my reply was neutral.
    — Susan Johnston, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Who decides what’s decorous and what’s vulgar?
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
  • If that isn’t strange and vulgar enough, for $1 million, his sperm is also for sale.
    — Sarah Gidick, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Mar. 2018
  • The film, which features an all-Asian cast, does not hold back on the vulgar and obscene.
    — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 7 July 2023
  • From a young age, Aya was drawn to streetwear, opting for graphic t-shirts that were vulgar.
    — Tatum Dooley, Teen Vogue, 21 June 2019
  • Someone had thrown a rock through her parents’ window and sprayed a vulgar word on their garage door in red paint.
    — David Enrich, New York Times, 6 June 2023
  • The monk asked how the grocer was able to concentrate among such vulgar music.
    — WIRED, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Sanders told Fox News on the morning after the vulgar rant aired.
    — Brian Flood, Fox News, 12 July 2018
  • Neither of us was vulgar enough to talk business on Sunday with our kids there.
    — Eddie Huang, Curbed, 10 Nov. 2025
  • And people say some vulgar things to you – talking a lot of mess about your family, your kids.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2022
  • So many of the bold, insane lyrics in Divine's music that were just so vulgar.
    — Shana Naomi Krochmal, EW.com, 22 June 2020
  • The website scanned more than a half-million comments for vulgar words and phrases.
    — oregonlive.com, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Life doesn’t play out exactly along the lines of vulgar Marxism.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The show’s rules say that signs with vulgar language or ones trying to sell something won’t be allowed.
    — Madeleine Winer, The Courier-Journal, 14 Sep. 2017
  • And then there’s also the spirit of burlesque, combined with the vulgar, which is very avant-garde.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 8 Aug. 2025
  • It was considered vulgar for women to smoke in public, or even to be around those who indulged in the habit.
    — Daniela Altimari, courant.com, 28 Mar. 2021
  • Here in Utah, a lot of disrespectful, vulgar things are said to the players here.
    — Ben Golliver, SI.com, 28 Apr. 2018
  • Photos of the aftermath show Depp wrote vulgar messages to his wife in blood on the walls of the house.
    — Matthew Barakat, ajc, 7 May 2022

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