What is a term for language that is considered vulgar rude or obscene in the context in which it is used?

1 belonging to the class of people of low social or economic rank

  • paintings that appeal to vulgar tastes

  • baseborn,
  • common,
  • humble,
  • ignoble,
  • inferior,
  • low,
  • low-life,
  • lowborn,
  • lower-class,
  • lowly,
  • lumpen,
  • mean,
  • plebeian,
  • prole,
  • proletarian,
  • unwashed

  • aristocratic,
  • blue-blooded,
  • genteel,
  • gentle,
  • grand,
  • great,
  • high,
  • highborn,
  • highbred,
  • lofty,
  • noble,
  • patrician,
  • upper-class,
  • upper-crust,
  • wellborn

2 depicting or referring to sexual matters in a way that is unacceptable in polite society

  • a warning about the movie's vulgar language

  • bawdy,
  • blue,
  • coarse,
  • crude,
  • dirty,
  • filthy,
  • foul,
  • gross,
  • gutter,
  • impure,
  • indecent,
  • lascivious,
  • lewd,
  • locker-room,
  • nasty,
  • obscene,
  • pornographic,
  • porny,
  • profane,
  • raunchy,
  • ribald,
  • smutty,
  • stag,
  • trashy,
  • unprintable,
  • wanton,
  • X-rated

  • barnyard,
  • earthy,
  • scatological
  • immodest,
  • indecorous,
  • indelicate,
  • low,
  • unbecoming
  • depraved,
  • kinky,
  • louche,
  • naughty,
  • perverse,
  • perverted,
  • wicked
  • distasteful,
  • obnoxious,
  • unpleasant
  • blamable,
  • blameworthy,
  • censurable,
  • reprehensible
  • hard-core,
  • soft,
  • soft-core

  • correct,
  • decorous,
  • genteel,
  • nice,
  • polite,
  • proper,
  • respectable,
  • seemly
  • acceptable,
  • agreeable,
  • desirable,
  • pleasant,
  • pleasing,
  • welcome
  • appropriate,
  • becoming,
  • fit,
  • meet,
  • suitable
  • immaculate,
  • perfect,
  • pure,
  • spotless,
  • virginal
  • approved,
  • endorsed
  • (also indorsed),
  • sanctioned

3 held by or applicable to a majority of the people

  • the vulgar opinion is that the nation is in decline

  • everyday,
  • familiar,
  • household,
  • usual,
  • well-known
  • contemporary,
  • current,
  • present
  • dominant,
  • predominant,
  • preponderant
  • pandemic,
  • pervasive,
  • prevalent,
  • rife,
  • widespread

  • rare,
  • strange,
  • unknown,
  • unusual
  • distinctive,
  • especial,
  • idiosyncratic,
  • peculiar,
  • special,
  • unique
  • individual,
  • separate,
  • singular
  • nonpublic,
  • personal,
  • private

4 lacking in refinement or good taste

  • vulgar behavior shown by someone who's made a lot of money and wants everyone to know it

  • coarse,
  • common,
  • crass,
  • crude,
  • gross,
  • ill-bred,
  • illiberal
  • [archaic],
  • incult,
  • insensible,
  • low,
  • lowbred,
  • lowbrow,
  • raffish,
  • rough,
  • rough-hewn,
  • roughneck,
  • rude,
  • rugged,
  • tasteless,
  • uncouth,
  • uncultivated,
  • uncultured,
  • unpolished,
  • unrefined

  • boorish,
  • churlish,
  • cloddish,
  • clownish,
  • loutish,
  • ungentlemanly
  • clumsy,
  • lubberly,
  • lumpish,
  • oafish
  • inconsiderate,
  • indelicate,
  • insensitive,
  • thoughtless
  • graceless,
  • inelegant,
  • tacky
  • animallike,
  • barbaric,
  • barbarous,
  • uncivilized
  • mannerless,
  • unmannered,
  • unmannerly

5 used in or suitable for speech and not formal writing

  • Latin was once the language of scholars, and English the vulgar language used by the common people

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