Definition of "vulgarize" []

• To make vulgar; debase: "What appalls him is the sheer cheesiness of TV iniquity. Television has even vulgarized hell” ( Jack Kroll). (verb-transitive)
• To disseminate widely; popularize. (verb-transitive)

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• "Visual ironies tend to fall flat or they vulgarize very quickly or they become grotesque."
• "Zuckerberg clearly does not want to sell the company to a firm that will vulgarize it with ubiquitous ads."
• "To vulgarize and to falsify until the bare lies shine through."