All 6 Uses of
vulgar
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- How could the born lady—the recluse of half a lifetime, utterly unpractised in the world, at sixty years of age,—how could she ever dream of succeeding, when the hard, vulgar, keen, busy, hackneyed New England woman had lost five dollars on her little outlay!†
Chpt 3vulgar = of bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
- The vulgar creature was determined to see for herself what sort of a figure a mildewed piece of aristocracy, after wasting all the bloom and much of the decline of her life apart from the world, would cut behind a counter.†
Chpt 3 *
- There was likewise, at times, a vein of something like poetry in him; it was the moss or wall-flower of his mind in its small dilapidation, and gave a charm to what might have been vulgar and commonplace in his earlier and middle life.†
Chpt 4
- "Ah, but these hens," answered the young man,—"these hens of aristocratic lineage would scorn to understand the vulgar language of a barn-yard fowl.†
Chpt 6
- If ever there was a lady born, and set apart from the world's vulgar mass by a certain gentle and cold stateliness, it was this very Alice Pyncheon.†
Chpt 13
- The final echoes of Alice Pyncheon's performance (or Clifford's, if his we must consider it) were driven away by no less vulgar a dissonance than the ringing of the shop-bell.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
of bad taste -- often crude or offensive
or:
unsophisticated (or common) -- especially of taste
or:
unsophisticated (or common) -- especially of taste