Vulgar vs Disgraceful - What's the difference?
vulgar | disgraceful | Related terms |
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
* Bancroft
* 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
Bringing or warranting disgrace; shameful.
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Giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation.
As adjectives the difference between vulgar and disgraceful
is that vulgar is debased, uncouth, distasteful, obscene while disgraceful is bringing or warranting disgrace; shameful.vulgar
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Adjective
(en-adj)- It might be more useful to the English reader to write in our vulgar language.
- The mechanical process of multiplying books had brought the New Testament in the vulgar tongue within the reach of every class.
- 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.