Verb (used with object), : to vulgarize standards of behavior. From Dictionary.com.
"vulgarise" Switzerland; but as far as I am concerned I freely give it up to them and offer them a personal welcome and take a peculiar satisfaction in seeing them here. From Wordnik.com. [Italian Hours] Reference
To catalogue the present features of Battle Abbey is to vulgarise it. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
In this situation it becomes relatively easy to debase and vulgarise the noble effort to create a new South Africa that belongs to all who live in it, black and white. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
With the approach of the silly season one's thoughts turn naturally to the prospect of stealing into print and enjoying all the sweets of authorship without the reception of a cheque to vulgarise them. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 29, 1914] Reference
With fanciful wonders are mingled many real ones, which served to make the rest believed in, and were gathered from well-informed authors; thus Mandeville's immense popularity served at least to vulgarise the knowledge of some curious and true facts. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
He loved his familiar surroundings, for nothing can vulgarise Oxford. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Froude] Reference
Such a supposition would merely be to vulgarise and to stultify the divine and elusive mystery. From Wordnik.com. [Little Essays of Love and Virtue] Reference
There is a flavour of sauer kraut about that unhappy tongue that would vulgarise a Queen if she talked it. From Wordnik.com. [Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General] Reference
They were behind the times only in the sense of escaping, by seclusion, those modern tendencies which vulgarise. From Wordnik.com. [The Crown of Life] Reference
He is as careful to vulgarise his accent and vocabulary as Joan Bakewell has told us she once was to gentrify her Brummy vowels. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
On la vulgarise! warrantmarrant est sur Facebook www. facebook.com/warrantmarrant. blog.capital.fr Follow me on Twitter: twitter. com. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to La Bourse de Tokyo clôture en nette baisse] Reference
Only do not vulgarise that great promise by making it out to mean that, if we will be good, He will give us the earthly blessings which we wish. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms] Reference
From such an ignoble spectacle as that of poor Mrs. Lincoln, -- a spectacle to vulgarise a whole nation, -- aristocracies undoubtedly preserve us. From Wordnik.com. [Culture and Anarchy] Reference
On la vulgarise! warrantmarrant est sur Facebook www. facebook.com/warrantmarrant. blog.capital.fr Follow me on Twitter: twitter. com Drag to Playlist. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to La Bourse de Tokyo clôture en nette baisse] Reference
Children do that sort of thing successfully, but children are content to convince themselves, and do not vulgarise their beliefs by trying to convince other people. From Wordnik.com. [Beasts and Super-Beasts] Reference
An English eccentric or two is sure to have lived and died here all by himself; though doubtless, once on the spot, they did their best to popularise and vulgarise it. From Wordnik.com. [Alone] Reference
The aim organising the Chess open was to vulgarise the sport and to exhibit the sport to officials to seek for recognition and affiliation with the Ministry of Sports. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Polgar Chess Daily News and Information] Reference
Paris; nor is it so flagrant and aggressive as the illuminated advertisements of whisky and California wines that vulgarise the august spectacle of the Thames by night. From Wordnik.com. [America To-day, Observations and Reflections] Reference
Do not so vulgarise and lower the nobleness and the loftiness of this great promise as to suppose that it only means -- If you remember His words you will get anything you like. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI] Reference
Then came chromatic scales of colour; combinations meant to vulgarise the rainbow; sinfonies and fugues; the twittering of birds and the great peace of dewy nature; maidenhood in her awakening innocence. From Wordnik.com. [Democracy, an American novel] Reference
A mountain here, and a temple there -- and then the guides and that kind of people contrive to vulgarise everything somehow; and then there is always an alarm about brigands, to say nothing of the badness of the inns. From Wordnik.com. [The Lovels of Arden] Reference
You must admit, Hirst, that a little Italian town even would vulgarise the whole scene, would detract from the vastness -- the sense of elemental grandeur. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage Out] Reference
You must admit, Hirst, that a little Italian town even would vulgarise the whole scene, would detract from the vastness — the sense of elemental grandeur.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage Out] Reference
"I have furthermore kept him segregated from all that could in any way vitiate or vulgarise; he has had the ablest tutors and been my constant companion, and to-day -- I am told -- all this is but his misfortune. From Wordnik.com. [Peregrine's Progress] Reference
But one must not vulgarise this relationship. From Wordnik.com. [NEW PATRIOTISM MUST CUT ACROSS CLASS AND COLOUR] Reference
"You must interpret what is in the songs and then you must express views on it ... but when you interpret the song and you vulgarise the interpretation, as a journalist, you are actually inciting conflict. From Wordnik.com. [News24 Top Stories] Reference
The modern method is to vulgarise them. From Wordnik.com. [Intentions] Reference
We do not vulgarise them. From Wordnik.com. Reference
On la vulgarise!. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Financial News] Reference
You can't vulgarise that. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Tragic Muse] Reference
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