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Vulgarize

verb
(past & past part. vulgarized; pres. part. vulgarizing)
1.
Cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use.  Synonyms: generalise, generalize, popularise, popularize, vulgarise.  "Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors"
2.
Debase and make vulgar.  Synonym: vulgarise.
3.
Act in a vulgar manner.  Synonym: vulgarise.



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"Vulgarize" Quotes from Famous Books



... Australian bower-birds and many other animals. All these things—at any rate in children and animals—come before speech; and anyhow we may say that LOVE-RITES, even in mature and civilized man, hardly ADMIT of speech. Words only vulgarize love and blunt ...
— Pagan & Christian Creeds - Their Origin and Meaning • Edward Carpenter
... female, do you know what you have done in thus outraging ME? I'm a respecterble woman, respecterbly connected. I'm here in a responserble station. When Mr. Holcroft appears he'll drive you from the dwelling which you vulgarize. Your presence makes this apartment a den. You are ...
— He Fell in Love with His Wife • Edward P. Roe


Words linked to "Vulgarize" :   disseminate, vulgarization, alter, disperse, behave, act, vulgar, propagate, change, circularize, broadcast, modify, distribute, pass around, circularise, spread, diffuse, circulate, do


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