How to Use vulgarity in a Sentence

vulgarity

noun

• I was shocked by the vulgarity of his language.
• He uttered a vulgarity and was silent.
• We have a policy against printing vulgarities in our magazine.
• The truth in that case, of course, is that the word was intended as a vulgarity.
  — Arkansas Online, 26 July 2021
• The irony lies in the confronting vulgarity of this speech, but not in its substance.
  — Katherine Cross, The Verge, 24 Aug. 2018
• Like The Front Page, the curtain line ends with a vulgarity drowned out by soundtrack noise.
  — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2022
• In fact, the Ford world is so removed from the vulgarity outside the stainless-steel doors, there might as well be a moat around the place.
  — Brad Dunning, GQ, 28 Mar. 2018
• All that racist vulgarity was piled up right next to Arbery’s lifeless body in the middle of the road.
  — Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2022
• The world has become a nonstop vulgarity, and our movies can’t keep up.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2020
• A lot of people see that as vulgarity, but that’s not what this culture is about.
  — Nacey Watson Johnson, Billboard, 8 Mar. 2023
• On the one hand, there is this embrace of public vulgarity.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 11 Nov. 2020
• But the vulgarity of the passionate Celtics fans still caught Wall by surprise.
  — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 11 May 2017
• But there was a smile with the vulgarity and there was a glamor — Divine's own version of glamor...
  — Shana Naomi Krochmal, EW.com, 22 June 2020
• Just the doing will make the Trumpian vulgarity worthwhile.
  — Kevin Baker, New Republic, 15 Feb. 2018
• If an usher hears any vulgarity, then that person needs to be tossed.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 30 June 2021
• The caller said the man, who had luggage, was making phone calls and screaming vulgarities.
  — John Benson, cleveland.com, 11 Jan. 2018
• What was repugnant about Trump's remark was not his use of a vulgarity in a White House meeting.
  — Jeff Darcy, cleveland.com, 17 Jan. 2018
• Late in the campaign and seeking to reverse the polls, Meade has changed style, adopting a more folksy manner and even tossing off some mild vulgarity.
  — Maria Verza, Fox News, 26 June 2018
• That includes Grace, her 15-year-old daughter, who is Haitian and recalls being called a racist vulgarity in fourth grade.
  — New York Times, 27 Nov. 2021
• That line is a testament to the vulgarity of the old studio moguls (plenty of great movies have messages), yet there’s a certain stubborn truth in it.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Aug. 2022
• But now is not the time for tinfoil hats or partisan vulgarity.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 18 May 2017
• Oh, the vulgarity, the venality, the small-minded nastiness of those loathsome souls now crowding the stage at the Duke on 42nd Street.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 1 June 2017
• Luxury, as Coco Chanel once said, is the opposite of vulgarity, and a 204 Coupe bears the saying out.
  — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 12 Dec. 2022
• And of course, there's the president himself, whose illicit affair triggered the avalanche of vulgarity that buried the country for most of 1998.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 31 Aug. 2021
• But the smallest notes of vulgarity often didn’t make it out of speakers in Asian countries tied to the U.S. military’s fraught presence.
  — Jason Jeong, The Atlantic, 4 May 2021
• Behind the film lie the Panama Papers—the millions of files, leaked in 2016, that demonstrated how the wealthy stash their moola offshore and thereby avoid the plebeian vulgarity of tax.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2019
• The rough edges, villainy, vulgarity, greed, and double-dealing are airbrushed from the Met’s story.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 3 Oct. 2020
• Legend called on the first lady to intervene, and Teigen used vulgarities.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2019
• Italian media had attributed to the pope the use of an Italian vulgarity on May 20 during a closed-door meeting with Italian bishops.
  — Giuseppe Fonte, USA TODAY, 12 June 2024
• Another explanation was that Martha-Ann Alito was upset about a yard sign in the neighborhood that contained a vulgarity.
  — Washington Post, 21 June 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024