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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vulgarism \Vul"gar*ism\, n. [Cf. F. vulgarisme.]
1. Grossness; rudeness; vulgarity.
2. A vulgar phrase or expression.
A fastidious taste will find offense in the
occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call
``slang,'' which not a few of our writers seem to
have affected. --Coleridge.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
vulgarism
n 1: obscene word or phrase [syn: {obscenity}]
2: the quality of lacking taste and refinement [syn: {coarseness},
{commonness}, {grossness}, {vulgarity}]
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