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Vulgarize

verb
(past & past part. vulgarized; pres. part. vulgarizing)
1.
Cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use.  Synonyms: generalise, generalize, popularise, popularize, vulgarise.  "Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors"
2.
Debase and make vulgar.  Synonym: vulgarise.
3.
Act in a vulgar manner.  Synonym: vulgarise.



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"Vulgarize" Quotes from Famous Books



... myself in a strait between two perils. On the one hand, I was in danger of being carried beyond the limit of my own opinions, or at least of that temper with which every man should speak his mind in print, and on the other I feared the risk of seeming to vulgarize a deep and sacred conviction. I needed on occasion to rise above the level of mere patois, and for this purpose conceived the Rev. Mr. Wilbur, who should express the more cautious element of the New England character and its pedantry, as Mr. Biglow should serve for its homely ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell



Words linked to "Vulgarize" :   disperse, circularize, distribute, spread, propagate, disseminate, broadcast, behave, change, generalise, diffuse, circularise, popularize, do, act, modify, vulgarization, pass around, alter, vulgar, popularise, circulate



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