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  • 101unsuitability — Synonyms and related words: Babbittry, aberrance, aberrancy, abnormality, ad lib, anomaly, bad taste, bourgeois taste, camp, campiness, criminality, delinquency, deviance, deviancy, disqualification, disrepair, dissatisfactoriness,… …

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  • 102vulgarism — Synonyms and related words: Babbittry, Gothicism, bad taste, barbarism, barbarousness, bombasticness, bourgeois taste, cacology, cacophony, camp, campiness, clumsiness, coarseness, colloquialism, corruption, crudeness, cumbrousness, dysphemism,… …

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  • 103vulgarity — Synonyms and related words: Gothicism, bad manners, bad taste, barbarism, barbarousness, baseness, bombasticness, cacology, cacophony, caddishness, clumsiness, coarseness, crudeness, cumbrousness, deficiency, discourteousness, discourtesy,… …

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  • 104artificial — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. handmade, handcrafted, synthetic; false, sham, fake, deceptive; affected, unnatural. See affectation, deception, production, inelegance. Ant., real, genuine. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [ Said of… …

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  • 105bad taste — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. tastelessness, coarseness. See inelegance, vulgarity …

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  • 106barbarism — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. solecism; barbarity, savagery, brutality, inhumanity, violence; ignorance, rudeness, vulgarity. See discourtesy, malevolence, inelegance. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. inhumanity, brutality, barbarity; see… …

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  • 107barbarous — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. uncultured, crude; cruel, brutal. See vulgarity, inelegance. Ant., civilized, cultivated. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Characterized by cruelty] Syn. cruel, inhuman, brutal, fierce; see cruel 1 . 2.… …

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  • 108baroque — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. florid, ornate; grotesque. See ornament, inelegance. Ant., simple, unadorned. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. elaborate, rococo, extravagant, florid; see ornate 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a.… …

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  • 109crude — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. rough, raw, unfinished, imperfect, plain, unwrought, unrefined, incomplete; unprepared, sketchy; coarse, crass, rude, tasteless, gross, immature, vulgar, uncouth. See inelegance, imperfection,… …

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  • 110doggerel — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. inelegant, crude; burlesque. See inelegance. n. poetastery, macaronics. See poetry …

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