Adjective

(er)

Showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing.

The dancers wore flashy costumes featuring shiny sequins in many vibrant colors.

Adjective

(en-adj)

Debased, uncouth, distasteful, obscene.

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* The construction worker made a vulgar suggestion to the girls walking down the street.

(classical sense) Having to do with ordinary, common people.

* Bishop Fell

It might be more useful to the English reader to write in our vulgar language.

* Bancroft

The mechanical process of multiplying books had brought the New Testament in the vulgar tongue within the reach of every class.

* 1860 , G. Syffarth, "A Remarkable Seal in Dr. Abbott's Museum at New York", Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis? , age 265

Further, the same sacred name in other monuments precedes the vulgar name of King Takellothis , the sixth of the XXII. Dyn., as we have seen.