Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Vulgarity (Bad taste)

Nouns
  • vulgarity, vulgarism
  • barbarism, Vandalism, Gothicism
  • bad taste
  • gaucherie, awkwardness, want of tact
  • ill-breeding etc. (discourtesy) Discourtesy. courseness etc. adj.
  • indecorum, misbehavior. lowness, homeliness
  • low life, rusticity
  • boorishness etc. adj.
  • brutality
  • rowdyism, blackguardism
  • ribaldry
  • slang etc. (neology) Neologism. bad joke, tawdriness
  • false ornament
  • finery, frippery, trickery, tinsel, gewgaw, clinquant
  • baroque, rococo. rough diamond, tomboy, hoyden, cub, unlicked cub
  • clown etc. (commonalty) Commonalty
  • Goth, Vandal, Boeotian
  • snob, cad, gent
  • parvenu etc. Commonalty
  • frump, dowdy
  • slattern etc. Uncleanness.
Verbs
  • be vulgar etc. adj.
  • misbehave
  • talk shop, smell of the shop.
Adjectives
  • in bad taste vulgar, unrefined. coarse, indecorous, ribald, gross
  • unseemly, unbeseeming, unpresentable
  • ungraceful etc. (ugly) Ugliness. dowdy
  • slovenly etc. (dirty) Uncleanness
  • ungenteel, shabby genteel
  • low, common, c. (plebeian) Commonalty
  • uncourtly
  • uncivil etc. (discourteous) Discourtesy
  • ill bred, ill mannered
  • underbred
  • ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike
  • unladylike, unfeminine
  • wild, wild as an unbacked colt. untutored, unschooled (ignorant) Ignorance. unkempt. uncombed, untamed, unlicked, unpolished, uncouth
  • plebeian
  • incondite
  • heavy, rude, awkward
  • homely, homespun, home bred
  • provincial, countrified, rustic
  • boorish, clownish
  • savage, brutish, blackguard, rowdy, snobbish
  • barbarous, barbaric
  • Gothic, unclassical, doggerel, heathenish, tramontane, outlandish
  • uncultivated
  • Bohemian. obsolete etc. (antiquated) Oldness
  • unfashionable
  • newfangled etc. (unfamiliar) Unconformity
  • odd etc. (ridiculous) Ridiculousness. particular
  • affected etc. Affectation
  • meretricious
  • extravagant, monstrous, horrid
  • shocking etc. (painful) [Capability of giving pain; cause or source of pain] Painfulness. gaudy, tawdry, overornamented, baroque, rococo
  • bedizened, tricked out, gingerbread
  • obtrusive.