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.

Some, for somewhat, or in some degree, appears to me a vulgarism; as, "This pause is generally some longer than that of a period.

The clerk who does this to the manager generally gets the sack, or shall we say (to avoid the vulgarism), finds himself free for higher culture.

Please don't give us the (to my mind) very ugly, quite modern costume, which shows with such cruel distinctness a podgy, pot-bellied (excuse the vulgarism) boy, who couldn't run a mile to save his life.

[Footnote 1: A common vulgarism; the law probably means "oral.

That great medicine hath With its tinct gilded many a vulgarism to the satisfaction of wiser heads than ours.

He is wrong also in thinking that he was restoring a characteristic vulgarism in aleven.

I have weeded out many vulgarisms.