Noun vulgarism has 2 senses
  1. obscenity, vulgarism, dirty word - an offensive or indecent word or phrase
    --1 is a kind of profanity
    --1 has particulars: bawdry, bawdy; scatology
  2. coarseness, commonness, grossness, vulgarity, vulgarism, raunch - the quality of lacking taste and refinement
    --2 is a kind of inelegance
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