All 11 Uses of
vulgar
in
Howards End
- It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile, and that a million square miles are almost the same as heaven.
Part 4 *vulgar = unsophisticated
- He played badly and vulgarly, but the performance was not without its effect, for Jacky said she thought she'd be going to bed.†
Part 6vulgarly = in a manner that shows bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
- Perhaps the elder lady, as she gazed at the vulgar, ruddy cathedral, and listened to the talk of her husband and Helen, may have detected in the other and less charming of the sisters a deeper sympathy, a sounder judgment.†
Part 8vulgar = of bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
- Vulgarity reigned.†
Part 10vulgarity = bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
- What do you want to turn on me like that for?" and suddenly the drawing-room re-echoed to a vulgar row.†
Part 16vulgar = of bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
- He's vulgar and hysterical and bookish, but don't think that sums him up.†
Part 16
- They think it's some vulgar scandal, and I must explain, 'Oh no, it's only my sister screaming, and only two hangers-on of ours, whom she has brought here for no conceivable reason.'†
Part 26
- Behind the coffins and the skeletons that stay the vulgar mind lies something so immense that all that is great in us responds to it.†
Part 27
- The lovely creature raised domes and spires into the cloudless blue, and only the ganglion of vulgarity round Carfax showed how evanescent was the phantom, how faint its claim to represent England.†
Part 30vulgarity = bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
- Dolly's eyes lit up with vulgar excitement.†
Part 35vulgar = of bad taste (crude, offensive, or unsophisticated)
- And even the influx of officials, even the return of the doctor, vulgar and acute, could not shake her belief in the eternity of beauty.†
Part 43
Definition:
of bad taste -- often crude or offensive
or:
unsophisticated (or common) -- especially of taste
or:
unsophisticated (or common) -- especially of taste