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vulgarize::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | generalise, generalize, popularise, popularize, vulgarise |
| Type of | circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, spread, broadcast, circularise, pass around, propagate |
| Verb group | popularise, popularize |
| Derivation | vulgar, vulgarization, vulgarizer |
Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors.
Examples of vulgarize
vulgarize
Newspapers only summarize and vulgarize topics without understanding much about them.
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To vulgarize the dead is bad enough, but Pickwick does something worse-it anesthetizes the living.
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But, in his activism, he never condescended to compromise or vulgarize his scholarship for the sake of popularizing it.
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The waves of vulgarity this picture gave off made me have the strong instinct that he was going to vulgarize the office of the presidency.
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- Popularize: cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use; "They popularized coffee in Washington State"; "Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors"
- Vulgarise: debase and make vulgar; "The Press has vulgarized Love and Marriage"
- Act in a vulgar manner; "The drunkard tends to vulgarize"
- (vulgarism) obscenity: an offensive or indecent word or phrase
- (vulgarism) coarseness: the quality of lacking taste and refinement
- (vulgarization) the act of rendering something coarse and unrefined
- A vulgarism (from Latin vulgus, the "mean folk"), also called scurrility, is a colloquialism of a low or unrefined character, which substitutes a coarse, indecorous word where the context might lead the reader to expect a more refined expression. ...
- To express or re-express something in a base, common, or lewd manner; to make something commonplace; to make something vulgar
- (vulgarism) A word or term that is considered offensive or vulgar; A spelling, word, or phrase used in common speech that is considered improper or incorrect for formal communication
