Flashy vs Vulgar - What's the difference?
flashy | vulgar | Related terms |
Showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing.
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
Flashy is a related term of vulgar.
As adjectives the difference between flashy and vulgar
is that flashy is showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing while vulgar is vulgar.flashy
English
Adjective
(er)- The dancers wore flashy costumes featuring shiny sequins in many vibrant colors.
vulgar
English
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.