vulgarism

vulgarism
    n 1: an offensive or indecent word or phrase [syn: {obscenity},
         {smut}, {vulgarism}, {filth}, {dirty word}]
    2: the quality of lacking taste and refinement [syn:
       {coarseness}, {commonness}, {grossness}, {vulgarity},
       {vulgarism}, {raunch}]
    

Vulgarism \Vul"gar*ism\, n. [Cf. F. vulgarisme.]
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   1. Grossness; rudeness; vulgarity.
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   2. A vulgar phrase or expression.
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            A fastidious taste will find offense in the
            occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call "slang,"
            which not a few of our writers seem to have
            affected.                             --Coleridge.
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76 Moby Thesaurus words for "vulgarism":
      Babbittry, Gothicism, bad taste, barbarism, barbarousness,
      bombasticness, bourgeois taste, cacology, cacophony, camp,
      campiness, clumsiness, coarseness, colloquialism, corruption,
      crudeness, cumbrousness, dysphemism, gracelessness, grossness,
      harshness, heaviness, high camp, ill-balanced sentences,
      impropriety, impurity, inappropriateness, inconcinnity,
      incorrectness, indecency, indecorousness, indecorum, indelicacy,
      inelegance, inelegancy, infelicity, kitsch, lack of finish,
      lack of polish, leadenness, localism, low camp, philistinism,
      pompousness, ponderousness, poor diction, poor taste, pop,
      pop culture, roughness, rudeness, sesquipedalianism,
      sesquipedality, slang, slipshod construction, solecism,
      stiltedness, taboo word, tastelessness, turgidity, unaestheticism,
      unaestheticness, unbecomingness, uncouthness, uneuphoniousness,
      unfittingness, ungracefulness, unrefinement, unseemliness,
      unsuitability, unsuitableness, unwieldiness, vernacularism,
      vulgar taste, vulgarity, vulgarness