Synonyms for the vulgar
the vul·gar

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1. the vulgar

   The populace are poor and ignorant, but may be law-abiding; a mob is disorderly and lawless, but may be rich and influential. The rabble is despicable, worthless, purposeless; a mob may have effective desperate purpose. A crowd may be drawn by mere curiosity; some strong, pervading excitement is needed to make it a mob. Compare PEOPLE.

   Synonyms:
   canaille, crowd, dregs of the people, lower classes, masses, mob, populace, rabble

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1. the vulgar

   Synonyms:
   the populace, the multitude, the rabble, the crowd, the common people, the dregs of the people, the scum of society

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1. Edmund Burke:

   But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A disposition, to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. Everything else is vulgar in the conception, perilous in the execution.

2. Aristophanes, Knights, 424 B.C.:

   You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

3. Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde:

   I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.

4. Oscar Wilde:

   To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

5. Thorsten J. Pattberg:

   Yes, I am vulgar and fearless, and loudly indifferent to convention and limitation.