vulgarity

[ vuhl-gar-i-tee ]

/ vʌlˈgær ɪ ti /

the state or quality of being vulgar: the vulgarity of his remark.

something vulgar, as an act or expression.

Origin of vulgarity

First recorded in 1570–80, vulgarity is from the Late Latin word vulgāritās commonness, the public. See vulgar, -ity

1 tastelessness, crudeness, grossness, indelicacy.

non·vul·gar·i·ty, noun, plural non·vul·gar·i·ties.

With the vulgarities and audacities, the shifts and the doubles of this shuffling man of prey, no one need again be troubled.

William Blake |Algernon Charles Swinburne
We may bear heavy judgment on our transgressions, but our weaknesses and vulgarities must not be criticised by a witness.

The Aesthetical Essays |Friedrich Schiller
To every century its own ironies, to every century its own vulgarities.

Essays |Alice Meynell
Have I not bidden you leave the vulgarities of dialect to the vulgar?

The Strolling Saint |Raphael Sabatini

The disciple of Plato rises, far from the vulgarities of life, into the lofty regions of the ideal, and feeds on beauty.

The Heavenly Father |Ernest Naville

vulgarity

/ (vʌlˈɡærɪtɪ) /

the condition of being vulgar; lack of good manners

a vulgar action, phrase, etc