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Word: vulgarizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beautiful, so graceful, so changeful in a hundred moods, so brilliant that it is enough to turn anyone's head," she wrote, adding perceptively that "part of her mysteriousness comes from her being, as it were, sexless." There were other flaws. Gladys was a liar, cruel, selfish, perverse, vulgar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Royal Siren | 6/9/1980 | See Source »

...should go to Nevada to one of the houses they have there," meaning Nevada's legal brothels. Such extravagant abuse apparently has caused many voters, who admired Jarvis as engagingly feisty two years ago, to write him off now as a vulgar demagogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Nein on Nine? | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

...case of one generation speaking to another. I am a product of the "new lingo" generation, and I admit I often find myself flinching inside while maintaining a deadpan expression. However, what really catches me off guard is when someone older than I tosses around what are considered vulgar words and expressions in my presence. I have been running into this in job interviews recently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 25, 1980 | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

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