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vulgarily

vulgarily is the alternative form of vulgarly.

Meaning of vulgarly

Adverb

vulgarly (comparative more vulgarly, superlative most vulgarly)

  1. In a vulgar manner; obscenely or unrefinedly.
    • Rosemary peeled off Sloane Square, Hartnell, decorations-will-be-worn, fog primroses, crumpets by the fire, and let fly vulgarly at Vythilingam.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 498
  2. In the manner of the common people.
    • The last, the knotted fucus, which has long slender stalks, leaves small, bulbs or vesicles in the middle of the stalks, vulgarly called eelwrack, is most esteemed by our kelp-makers.1809, The Tradesman, volume 3, page 1

Forms of vulgarily

comparativemore vulgarily
superlativemost vulgarily

Questions about vulgarily

What is vulgarily the alternative form of?
Vulgarily is the alternative form of vulgarly.

Words near vulgarily in the dictionary

  1. vulgar Marxism
  2. vulgarer
  3. vulgarest
  4. vulgarian
  5. vulgarians
  6. vulgarily
  7. vulgarisation
  8. vulgarisations
  9. vulgarise
  10. vulgarised
  11. vulgariser

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