vulgar

Sir Walter Scott's definition of what is vulgar is open to criticism, I fancy.

But I herewith discharge my conscience, and declare that I have had quite enthusiastic movements of admiration towards old gentlemen who spoke the worst English, who were occasionally fretful in their temper, and who had never moved in a higher sphere of influence than that of parish overseer; and that the way in which I have come to the conclusion that human nature is lovable--the way I have learnt something of its deep pathos, its sublime mysteries--has been by living a great deal among people more or less commonplace and vulgar, of whom you would perhaps hear nothing very surprising if you were to inquire about them in the neighbourhoods where they dwelt.

van der Luyden looked about the room with what would have been self-satisfaction on features less purged of the vulgar passions.

I read "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers," and I liked its vulgar music and its heavy-handed sarcasm.

You should tell the good people at home not to bore you with such long letters,' said she; 'and, above all, do bid them write on proper note-paper, and not on those great vulgar sheets.

Many exquisite viands might be rejected by the epicure, if it was a sufficient cause for his contemning of them as common and vulgar, that something was to be found in the most paltry alleys under the same name.

Then comes the question; said the eminently practical father, with his eyes on the fire, 'in what has this vulgar curiosity its rise?