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Definition of "vulgarizing" []

  • Present participle of vulgarize. (verb)

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Use "vulgarizing" in a sentence
  • "Also I must say that more special originality and even _newness_ (though this might be called a vulgarizing word), of thought and picture in individual lines -- more of this than I find here -- seems to me the very first qualification of a sonnet -- otherwise it puts forward no right to be so short, but might seem a severed passage from a longer poem depending on development."
  • "The music must not show the influence of “comic operas” or the “popular classics” favored by “freak-fashionables” who are “vulgarizing your high heritage” and “undoing the work of Washington and Lincoln.”"
  • "Did Tina Brown, The New Yorker's current editor, who is often accused of vulgarizing Shawn's great magazine, urge Ross to tell all?"
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