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her vulgar behaviour at the dinner table. 2 tasteless,
indelicate, indecent, rude, crude, naughty, dirty, improper, off
colour, risqu‚, ribald, blue, indecorous, nasty, offensive,
gross, lustful, obscene, lewd, lascivious, licentious, smutty,
salacious, scatological, filthy, pornographic, Slang US raunchy:
He made a lot of money through publishing vulgar magazines and
videos. 3 popular, vernacular, ordinary, everyday, general,
homespun, commonplace, household, average: Dictionaries should
record the vulgar language as well as the literary.
vulgarity n. 1 coarseness, lack of refinement or sophistication,
crudeness, rudeness, indelicacy, tawdriness, baseness,
humbleness, unsophistication, gaucherie, gaucheness, ignobility:
When you consider his upbringing you can scarcely blame him for
his vulgarity. 2 impropriety, lewdness, grossness, foulness,
vileness, filthiness, obscenity, Slang US raunchiness: The
magazine was refused an import licence because of its vulgarity.
vulnerable
adj. exposed, defenceless, weak, sensitive, unprotected,
unguarded, unshielded, helpless, powerless: She felt vulnerable
to those who prey on the elderly.
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wad n. 1 pad, mass, lump, clod, ball, plug, chunk, hunk, block,
pack: He had a wad of cotton wool in each ear. 2 roll,
pocketful, heap, quantity, load, Colloq US bankroll: Over
coffee James handed him a wad of notes.
waddle v. toddle, shuffle, wobble or wabble, totter, paddle, pad,
waggle, duck-walk, Brit dialect wamble: He waddled down the
road, a shopping-bag on each arm.
wade v. 1 ford, cross, traverse, walk, make one's way: The water is
only knee-deep, and you can wade across. 2 paddle, play,