Vulgar vs Smirk - What's the difference?
vulgar | smirk |
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
An uneven, often crooked smile that is insolent, self-satisfied or scornful.
A forced or affected smile; a simper.
* Sir Walter Scott
(obsolete) smart; spruce; affected; simpering
* Spenser
As adjectives the difference between vulgar and smirk
is that vulgar is vulgar while smirk is (obsolete) smart; spruce; affected; simpering.As a noun smirk is
an uneven, often crooked smile that is insolent, self-satisfied or scornful.As a verb smirk is
to smile in a way that is affected, smug, insolent or contemptuous.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.
Synonyms
* (obscene) inappropriate, obscene, debased, uncouth, offensive, ignoble, mean, profane * (ordinary) common, ordinary, popularDerived terms
* (obscene) vulgarity * (ordinary) vulgar fraction, vulgate, Vulgate * vulgar fractionsmirk
English
(wikipedia smirk)Alternative forms
*Noun
(en noun)- The bride, all smirk and blush, had just entered.
Derived terms
* smirker * smirkily * smirkingly * smirkySynonyms
* simper * shit-eating grin (vulgar)Adjective
(en adjective)- So smirk , so smooth.