ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

Adv. elegantly &c adj..
Phr. nihil tetigit quod non ornavit [Lat.] [from Johnson's epitaph on Goldsmith]; chacun
a son gout [Fr.]; oculi pictura tenentur aures cantibus [Lat.] [Cicero].
851. [Bad taste.] Vulgarity -- N. vulgarity, vulgarism; barbarism, Vandalism,
Gothicism † ; mauvis gout [Fr.], bad taste; gaucherie, awkwardness, want of tact; illbreeding
&c (discourtesy) 895.
courseness &c adj. † ; indecorum, misbehavior.
lowness, homeliness; low life, mauvais ton [Fr.], rusticity; boorishness &c adj.;
brutality; rowdyism, blackguardism † ; ribaldry; slang &c (neology) 563.
bad joke, mauvais plaisanterie [Fr.].
[Excess of ornament] gaudiness, tawdriness; false ornament; finery, frippery, trickery,
tinsel, gewgaw, clinquant † ; baroque, rococo.
rough diamond, tomboy, hoyden, cub, unlicked cub † ; clown &c (commonalty) 876;
Goth, Vandal, Boeotian; snob, cad, gent; parvenu &c 876; frump, dowdy; slattern &c
653.
V. be vulgar &c adj.; misbehave; talk shop, smell of the shop.
Adj. in bad taste vulgar, unrefined.
coarse, indecorous, ribald, gross; unseemly, unbeseeming † , unpresentable † ; contra
bonos mores [Lat.]; ungraceful &c (ugly) 846.
dowdy; slovenly &c (dirty) 653; ungenteel, shabby genteel; low, common, hoi polloi
[Gr.], &c (plebeian) 876; uncourtly † ; uncivil &c (discourteous) 895; ill bred, ill
mannered; underbred; ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike; unladylike, unfeminine; wild,
wild as an unbacked colt.
untutored, unschooled (ignorant) 491.
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 &c (antiquated) 124; unfashionable; newfangled &c (unfamiliar) 83; odd &c
(ridiculous) 853.
particular; affected &c 855; meretricious; extravagant, monstrous, horrid; shocking &c
(painful) 830.
gaudy, tawdry, overornamented, baroque, rococo; bedizened, tricked out, gingerbread;
obtrusive.
852. Fashion -- N. fashion, style, ton, bon ton † , society; good society, polite society;
monde [Fr.]; drawing-room, civilized life, civilization, town, beau monde [Fr.], high
life, court; world; fashionable world, gay world; Vanity Fair; show &c (ostentation) 822.
manners, breeding &c (politeness) 894; air, demeanor &c (appearance) 448; savoir
faire [Fr.]; gentlemanliness † , gentility, decorum, propriety, biens_eance [Fr.];
conventions of society; Mrs.
Grundy; punctilio; form, formality; etiquette, point of etiquette; dress &c 225.
custom &c 613; mode, vogue, go; rage &c (desire) 865; prevailing taste; fad, trend,
bandwagon, furore † , thing, in thing, craze, chic, last word.