vulgarians

Tasteless, crass individuals

Vulgarians are people who lack refinement or good taste, especially those who display their wealth crassly or behave boorishly despite having money.

The term implies not just coarseness but a failure to acquire the manners expected of one's station: The old-money families viewed the new arrivals as vulgarians.

A vulgarian might be loud, ostentatious, or oblivious to social niceties.

boorish

philistine

Art-dismissing ignoramus

  • loutCrude, ill-mannered person
  • oafStupid clumsy person
  • boorRude, insensitive person

churl · clod · brute · yahoo · ruffian · hooligan · cad · lowbrow · ignoramus · uncouth

crass

offensive

Causing displeasure or attack-oriented

raunchy · crude · gross · tasteless · profane · foul-mouthed · ribald · smutty · bawdy · indelicate

barbaric

barbarian

Uncivilized, crude person

raider · conqueror · horde · invader · plunderer · marauder · destroyer · philistine · goth · hun

Opposites
cultural refinement and taste

vulgarianssophisticates

Worldly, cultured individuals

aesthetes · connoisseurs · cognoscenti · gentlefolk · tastemakers

social class and breeding

vulgariansaristocrats

Hereditary ruling class

patricians · bluebloods · nobility · old money · grandees

intellectual and artistic sensibility

vulgariansintellectuals

People of scholarly pursuits

scholars · highbrows · literati · intelligentsia · art lovers

Family

vulgarian

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