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The result is the worst of both worlds: Washington is still pursuing a misguided grand strategy, but now with an incompetent vulgarian in the White House.—Stephen M. Walt, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2019 Not even the threat of a belligerent vulgarian named Shaggy Beard (Paul Kaye) as a prospective husband can derail the cheekiness.—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2022 Their doom is predicted in De France’s perfect stone face and Depardieu’s worldly vulgarian; both personify the manipulation of naïveté and innocence.—Armond White, National Review, 10 June 2022 This finding can serve as a nice empirical middle-finger from vulgarians everywhere, directed at those who had, until now, been unfairly judging them for their linguistic abilities.—Piercarlo Valdesolo, Scientific American, 5 Apr. 2016 Because clever vulgarians are always trying to outwit state technology, the program also scans the messages backward.—Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019 Accordingly, Post marched her readers through the various types of dressers — the vulgarian, the unnoticeable, the sheep, and the greatest of all: The Woman Who Is Really Chic — as well as the proper dress for all settings.—Constance Grady, Vox, 27 June 2019 Mark Lewis Jones plays Thomas Griffiths, a gruff vulgarian partnered with the pious Thomas Howell (Michael Jibson) at Smalls Lighthouse, about 20 miles off the coast.—Noel Murray, latimes.com, 5 July 2018 But Samantha Bee was hired to be a partisan vulgarian.—NBC News, 3 June 2018
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