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vulgarize
verb
(
vulgariz, ing
)
To make something vulgar; to express or re-express something in a base, common, or lewd manner.
1915:
Virginia Woolf,
The Voyage Out
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:"Yes," said Mr. Flushing. "And in my opinion," he continued, "the absence of population to which Hirst objects is precisely the significant touch. 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."
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