vulgar

Meanings

• lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
  • "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"
  • "the vulgar display of the newly rich"
• of or associated with the great masses of people
  • "a vulgar and objectionable person"
• being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
  • "the vulgar tongue of the masses"
  • "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species"
• conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
  • "a vulgar gesture"
  • "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited"

Synonyms

coarse, common, crude, earthy, gross, plebeian, rough-cut, uncouth, unwashed, vernacular