57 examples of vulgarisms in sentences

366) describes Barry's book as one 'which does not want sense, though full of passion and self, and vulgarisms and vanity.' Boswell had tried to bring about a third meeting between Johnson and Wilkes.

It has become a practice of late with a certain description of people, who have no visible means of subsistence, to string together a few trite images of rural scenery, interspersed with vulgarisms in dialect, and traits of vulgar manners; to dress up these materials in a Sing-Song jingle; and to offer them for sale as a Poem.

" "What is that strange word?" said the cardinal; "it must be a vulgarism of New Italy, that 'impossible.'

Don't think that I'm going to invoke considerations of gratitude; no, I'm not going to waste my time in stupid vulgarisms.

In an age of colloquial idioms, when to write in a loose slang had become a mark of loyalty, this is the only L'Estrange vulgarism I have met with in Leighton.

Think of the vulgarism "flare up;" let it be "burns.

The translators have overcome the difficulties of slang with great skill, rendering by equivalent vulgarisms which give the spirit where the letter would be unintelligible.

I have weeded out many vulgarisms.

We have the vulgarism of "mutual friend," for "common friend."

But to atone for these vulgarisms, who that has heard the syren strains of Stephens or Paton, or the Anglo-Italian style of Braham, but has envied them the pleasurable monopoly of delighting thousands, and sending them home with the favourite air still echoing in their ears, and lulling them to soft slumbers!

Her vulgarisms of speech and feeling jarred upon me.

The chief objection which we have to make against Mr. White's text is, that he has perversely allowed it to continue disfigured by vulgarisms of grammar and spelling.

What put for who or which, is therefore a ludicrous vulgarism; as, "The aspiring youth what fired the Ephesian dome.

It is not only a gross vulgarism, but a plain and palpable violation of the foregoing rule of syntax; and, as such it must be reputed, if the rule has any propriety at all.

Thus, 'I have not written, and I do not intend to,' is a colloquial vulgarism for, 'I have not written, and I do not intend to write.

These phrases are the same that somebody(I believe it is Smith, in his Inductive Grammar) has ignorantly written "ary one" and "nary one" calling them vulgarisms.

And among the expressions which Campbell censures under the name of vulgarism, are the following: "'Tis my humble request you will be particular in speaking to the following points.

It was born on the stage, about ten years ago, at one of the minor theatres at Paris, though probably borrowed from a wine-shop, and most likely will have as brief an existence as our own late "flare-up," and such ephemeral colloquialisms, or rather vulgarisms, that tickle the public fancy for a day, till pushed from their stool by another.

I don't want to speak too slightingly of these verbal critics;how can I, who am so fond of talking about errors and vulgarisms of speech?

CONVERSATION AND GOOD USE.Good use cannot be determined solely by observing the conversation of our associates; for the chances are that they use many local expressions, some slang, and possibly some vulgarisms.

ADJECTIVES, 109-133; defined, 109; vulgarisms in the use of, 109-113; singular and plural, 110; adjective or adverb, 113-116; redundant, 117-118; misused, 119-129; use of the comparative and superlative degrees, 129-131; adjectives incapable of comparison, 131-132; misplaced, 132-133.

ADVERBS, 109-133; defined,109; vulgarisms in the use of, 109-113; adverb or adjective, 113-116; redundant, 117-118; misused, 119-129; use of the comparative and superlative degrees, 129-131; adverbs incapable of comparison, 131-132; misplaced, 132-133; between to and the infinitive, 133.

CONJUNCTIONS, 142-149; vulgarisms in the use of, 142143; misused, 143-146; omitted, 146.; redundant, 146-148; misplaced correlatives, 148-149.

Vulgarisms, defined, 10; in the use of adjectives and adverbs, 109-113; of conjunctions, 142-143.

It is desirable also to caution them against adopting the too prevalent vulgarism of calling each other, or indeed any person whatever, merely by the initial letter of their surname.

57 examples of  vulgarisms  in sentences