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单词 vulgarism
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Definition of vulgarism in English:

vulgarism

noun ˈvʌlɡərɪz(ə)mˈvəlɡəˌrɪzəm
  • 1A word or expression that is considered inelegant, especially one that makes explicit and offensive reference to sex or bodily functions.

    粗俗的词语;粗俗的话

    he was hurling vulgarisms at the crowd
    this pronunciation was stigmatized as a vulgarism by some commentators
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Elizabethan and even 18th century authors, who represent vulgarisms so frequently, do not seem to use omissions and misplacings of h's as a characteristic of low class speech.
    • He was an editor who hated screen violence, and vulgarisms - ‘squeamish’, she called him - and there were constant battles over her copy.
    • They were, I thought, vulgarisms: just fashion and status accoutrements.
    • But Michelle can only think of vulgarisms: she stands for a generation that, like Shakespeare's Caliban, has yet to be taught a civilized language.
    • Therefore all the tricks of rhetoric were used: rhymes, puns, vulgarisms and homilies.
    • Despite this, the police did absolutely nothing (the American vulgarism, Sweet Fanny Adam, is the expression which comes to mind) and stood by watching the fun.
    • The manuscript was intended to point out and correct vulgarisms that had entered the Latin language.
    • In the history of genre-study or formalism, the Essay deserves a mention, particularly for its inclusiveness: prose, dialect, vulgarisms, and the low are all in.
    • The language that he described as American was full of regional variation, new words borrowed from immigrant groups, figurative usage from such institutions as railroading and baseball, jaunty slang, and raucous vulgarisms.
    • It's a neat theatrical trick that sees us introduced to the intentionally harsh vulgarisms of sexual parlance.
    • Oddly, in British English it is not these days a vulgarism, or at least only a very mild one.
    • It's just spoken English, not just vulgarisms but slang and stuff like that.
    • Orators are not improvising without adequate preparation; they are ‘winging it’ (this American vulgarism surely never arose till the 1990s?)
    Synonyms
    wording, diction, phrasing, phraseology, style, vocabulary, terminology, expressions, turns of phrase, parlance, manner of speaking, manner of writing, way of talking, form of expression, mode of expression, usages, locutions, idiolect, choice of words, rhetoric, oratory
    1. 1.1archaic An instance of rude or offensive behaviour.
      〈古〉庸俗,粗俗

Definition of vulgarism in US English:

vulgarism

nounˈvəlɡəˌrizəmˈvəlɡəˌrɪzəm
  • 1A word or expression that is considered inelegant, especially one that makes explicit and offensive reference to sex or bodily functions.

    粗俗的词语;粗俗的话

    he was hurling vulgarisms at the crowd
    this pronunciation was stigmatized as a vulgarism by some commentators
    Example sentencesExamples
    • They were, I thought, vulgarisms: just fashion and status accoutrements.
    • Therefore all the tricks of rhetoric were used: rhymes, puns, vulgarisms and homilies.
    • Elizabethan and even 18th century authors, who represent vulgarisms so frequently, do not seem to use omissions and misplacings of h's as a characteristic of low class speech.
    • Despite this, the police did absolutely nothing (the American vulgarism, Sweet Fanny Adam, is the expression which comes to mind) and stood by watching the fun.
    • Orators are not improvising without adequate preparation; they are ‘winging it’ (this American vulgarism surely never arose till the 1990s?)
    • In the history of genre-study or formalism, the Essay deserves a mention, particularly for its inclusiveness: prose, dialect, vulgarisms, and the low are all in.
    • It's just spoken English, not just vulgarisms but slang and stuff like that.
    • The language that he described as American was full of regional variation, new words borrowed from immigrant groups, figurative usage from such institutions as railroading and baseball, jaunty slang, and raucous vulgarisms.
    • It's a neat theatrical trick that sees us introduced to the intentionally harsh vulgarisms of sexual parlance.
    • But Michelle can only think of vulgarisms: she stands for a generation that, like Shakespeare's Caliban, has yet to be taught a civilized language.
    • He was an editor who hated screen violence, and vulgarisms - ‘squeamish’, she called him - and there were constant battles over her copy.
    • Oddly, in British English it is not these days a vulgarism, or at least only a very mild one.
    • The manuscript was intended to point out and correct vulgarisms that had entered the Latin language.
    Synonyms
    wording, diction, phrasing, phraseology, style, vocabulary, terminology, expressions, turns of phrase, parlance, manner of speaking, manner of writing, way of talking, form of expression, mode of expression, usages, locutions, idiolect, choice of words, rhetoric, oratory
    1. 1.1archaic An instance of rude or offensive behavior.
      〈古〉庸俗,粗俗
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