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Vulgarian

noun

A vulgar person (especially someone who makes a vulgar display of wealth).

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"Vulgarian" Quotes from Famous Books

... second occasion Godwin tried to escape a meeting with his uncle. Unable to do so, he sat mute, replying to questions monosyllabically. Mrs. Peak's shame and annoyance, in face of this London-branded vulgarian, were but feeble emotions compared with those of her son. Godwin hated the man, and was in dread lest any school-fellow should come to know of such a connection. Yet delicacy prevented his uttering a word on the subject ...

— Born in Exile • George Gissing

... you could have got him?—a fine, promising, pushing fellow, with his million or more already, and barely thirty-five, just the right age for you!" Yet again, she was saying to that poor little vulgarian, Preciosa McNulty, "If Virgilia will, she will, and there's an end of it; therefore should you, dear child, promise me to use your influence with that loutish old peasant of a grandfather, you shall have the beatitude ...

— Under the Skylights • Henry Blake Fuller

Words linked to "Vulgarian" : disagreeable person, pig, slovenly person, ribald, slob, sloven, unpleasant person