How to Use vulgarity in a Sentence

vulgarity

noun
  • But since then, his foul language and vulgarities have rubbed us the wrong way.
    — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 2025-02-20
  • The truth in that case, of course, is that the word was intended as a vulgarity.
    — Arkansas Online, 2021-07-26
  • The irony lies in the confronting vulgarity of this speech, but not in its substance.
    — Katherine Cross, The Verge, 2018-08-24
  • The sour stench of the carcasses was a vulgarity almost too great to bear.
    — Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Songs marked explicit mean their lyrics include swear words or other vulgarities.
    — Melina Khan, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • In fact, the Ford world is so removed from the vulgarity outside the stainless-steel doors, there might as well be a moat around the place.
    — Brad Dunning, GQ, 2018-03-28
  • His vulgarity, insults and threats do not make America great.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Like The Front Page, the curtain line ends with a vulgarity drowned out by soundtrack noise.
    — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 2022-12-17
  • The difference between an explicit and clean version of a song is that the former contains expletives or vulgarities, while the latter does not.
    — Melina Khan, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • It is hoped that political ad campaigns would aim to lessen the meanness and divisiveness and vulgarity that have damaged our democracy.
    — Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026
  • As the subtitle promises, their answers are shared with all the vulgarity, pettiness, and arrogance intact.
    — Juliet Izon, The Atlantic, 4 June 2026
  • The presence of these planes flying close to our Caribbean Sea is a vulgarity, a provocation, a threat to the security of the nation.
    — John Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The values are different now, the lifestyles, the accepted vulgarity, the manners, the view of what’s patriotic and what’s not, the concept of service.
    — Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Benoit delights in language as much as her heroine, weaving Regency-era slang throughout and appending a chapter-by-chapter glossary of vulgarities.
    — Angelina Mazza, Vulture, 19 June 2026
  • Many of the European players were subjected to dreadful abuse from the galleries, unprintable vulgarities and some deeply personal insults.
    — Don Riddell, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
  • That’s almost criminal in a social world of implication, subtext, and discretion, and one prepared to punish its own over the slightest whiff of vulgarity, real or imagined.
    — Elle Carroll, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Hungerstone is a delicious tribute to the inherent horrors of womanhood and the desperate and exquisite vulgarity of desire.
    — Gabrielle Bellot, Literary Hub, 2 Feb. 2026
  • Skarsgård takes aspects of the real Kiritsis — his irrational rage and vulgarity — but gives him an inner life and depth that the real Kiritsis didn’t seem to possess.
    — Mick Lasalle, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The artist’s way, of course, is sincere, even if in the case of Dracula, sincerity begets just under three hours of unsparing cultural commentary and full goose bozo vulgarity.
    — Andy Crump, Time, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Action rocks as Season 2 leans more into DCU absurdity and vulgarity.
    — James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Aug. 2025
  • On Monday night, that park seemed so far away as Knicks fans rained vulgarities down on Wembanyama and his teammates inside Madison Square Garden.
    — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 11 June 2026
  • Dracula exhibits a gleeful, chaotic vulgarity, yet Jude’s sideways vampire history concludes on a note of reconciliation and hope.
    — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2025
  • One of Lamont’s unacknowledged strengths is his public composure and innate courtesy in an era when escalating vulgarity in politics shows an ugly American face to us and the world.
    — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 7 Feb. 2026
  • With its insistent, obsessive patter, not to mention its unrelenting commitment to in-your-face vulgarity, Sherman’s comedy is hardly for everyone.
    — Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2025
  • Nestled between the layers is a genuinely heartfelt story that blooms from beneath all the aesthetic and verbal vulgarity, thus making innate, and intuitive, his ongoing, ever-evolving manifesto on the state of things.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, IndieWire, 16 May 2026
  • Former President Richard Nixon proved himself no slouch in the vulgarity department after reaching the White House in 1969.
    — Bart Jansen, USA Today, 22 Feb. 2026
  • The production is known for its humor as much as its vulgarity, and on Thursday night, the Out Front Theatre Company is raising the curtain on the off-Broadway production.
    — Monique John, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026
  • In addition, prosecutors say swastikas, antisemitic slogans and vulgarity were spray-painted on pillars underneath M-53 and Canal, a brick wall near a business and an electrical box at a second business.
    — Joseph Buczek, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Jude is an erudite man of the people whose hyper-literate intellectualism is only matched by his Chaucer-like vulgarity, and his work has long reveled in an impish fascination with the relationship between art, labor, and technology.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Many of the racist, nativist vulgarities spoken out loud in Paul Thomas Anderson’s marvelous new film One Battle After Another evoke sentiments that, in our world, first fomented online.
    — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2025

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