What's the difference between scurrilous and vulgar?

Scurrilous


Definition:

  • (a.) Using the low and indecent language of the meaner sort of people, or such as only the license of buffoons can warrant; as, a scurrilous fellow.
  • (a.) Containing low indecency or abuse; mean; foul; vile; obscenely jocular; as, scurrilous language.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They are not about press illegality but something mysteriously called "misdemeanour" – that is scurrility, intrusion and unfairness.
  • (2) They were there to record everything from his despair at the fickleness of his recruits, to the distress of his wife Jools at the way the media had invaded their privacy, with scurrilous rumours of infidelity.
  • (3) With its combination of scurrilous details (“flask” sized penises and a key witness called Bubba the Love Sponge) and big picture analysis (“this is the biggest First Amendment case in the internet age”), Hogan v Gawker is a classic Denton story.
  • (4) Jailed in 1971 for his part in producing the scurrilous magazine Oz, he runs the Forest of Dennis, more than 600,000 new trees covering 500 hectares, through a charitable trust.
  • (5) The flurry of scandal over Oxford University Press stopping its children’s writers from referring to pigs or pork for fear of risking Middle East sales – or the Harper Collins atlases for export that mysteriously omit Israel for the same reason – show how easily freedom slips away unless scurrilous outriders like Charlie Hebdo can keep mocking church and mosque.
  • (6) Also moving last week: • Switzerland, 26 April: Sion president Christian Constantin says reports that he could sack his fifth coach of the season are scurrilous: "Gattuso is going nowhere, he calls the shots – nothing will be done here without his say so."
  • (7) Richard Davenport-Hines in his recently published An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo writes that 1963 was the year when "the soapy scum flowed after the sluices of self-righteous scurrility were opened".
  • (8) Others on the train begin spreading scurrilous rumours that I am travelling in first class, forcing me later to produce my train tickets.
  • (9) The union vowed to ramp up industrial action, including strikes in the autumn over a range of grievances spanning pay, pensions and workload after passing a motion denouncing "scurrilous attacks, abuse, intimidation and lies" and accusing the government of a "vicious assault" on the profession.
  • (10) Rather, it will protect members of the public from the more scurrilous abuses, which in my case resulted in the printing of lies and unfounded allegations.
  • (11) Through the listserv, conference calls were quickly organized among top scientists across the country to discuss how to respond to the news that what was seen as a scurrilous and misleading film was to be given a high-profile airing.
  • (12) I am not a member or even supporter of the Labour party but your scurrilous coverage has convinced me that your paper no longer lives up to the label.
  • (13) The justice secretary, Kenneth Clarke , said: "As the law stands, individuals can be the subject of scurrilous rumour and allegation on the web with little meaningful remedy against the person responsible.
  • (14) "We are instructed to record our clients' complete rejection of the scurrilous allegations made by the applicants in their papers.
  • (15) What about Damian McBride, Brown's shamed spin doctor, sacked for sending an email suggesting planting scurrilous and untrue rumours about members of the opposition?
  • (16) McBride was forced to resign as Brown's head of strategy in 2009 after he sent Draper emails containing scurrilous gossip and lies about Conservative MPs as planning for Red Rag took shape.
  • (17) Whether such scurrilous operations will surface in 2012 might depend on how close the polls are and at present they are tight.
  • (18) Liddle provokes to the brink of apoplexy, but he rarely conceals his views in insidious campaigns of rumour and scurrility.
  • (19) 6.36pm BST 77 min : De Sciglio booked for a scurrilous strategic foul aimed at aborting another Uruguay attack.
  • (20) These days it would be stretching it to suggest that Eastwood's range is quite that broad, his face seemingly fixed in a beatific beam, the sort of blissful countenance that once had him pegged in a scurrilous - and erroneous - piece of showbiz gossip as Stan Laurel's love child.

Vulgar


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the mass, or multitude, of people; common; general; ordinary; public; hence, in general use; vernacular.
  • (a.) Belonging or relating to the common people, as distinguished from the cultivated or educated; pertaining to common life; plebeian; not select or distinguished; hence, sometimes, of little or no value.
  • (a.) Hence, lacking cultivation or refinement; rustic; boorish; also, offensive to good taste or refined feelings; low; coarse; mean; base; as, vulgar men, minds, language, or manners.
  • (n.) One of the common people; a vulgar person.
  • (n.) The vernacular, or common language.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Water stress inhibits the gibberellic acid (GA(3))-induced synthesis of alpha-amylase in aleurone layers of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.).
  • (2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Britain needs to talk about the R-word: racism It is also a wakeup call to those who recognise racism only when it is played out like a scene from Django Unchained , those who think that racism has to be some vulgar incident perpetrated only by the backward, ignorant and poorly educated, those who believe that racism has to be an act, rather than a complicated and intangible framework that sets up obstacles.
  • (3) Chinese hamster cells and normal human skin fibroblasts were treated with extracts from Salmonella typhimurium or Hordeum vulgare (barley) containing a crude mutagenic metabolite, as well as with synthetically produced azidoalanine.
  • (4) The model agrees with those proposed for TMV "vulgare" RNA and confirms their general validity for the tobamoviruses.
  • (5) Perhaps the recession will finally put the kibosh on all this vulgar Jimmy Choo-ing and Vera Wang-ing.
  • (6) In the present study we compare isoenzymes 1 and 2 from Sinapis alba and Hordeum vulgare on the basis of antigenic cross-reactivity, tryptic peptides, and amino acid composition.
  • (7) Three lectins, from Canavalia ensiformis (concanavalin), Triticum vulgare (wheat germ A), and Phytolacca americana (pokeweed [PWM]), were found to react with fungal pathogens commonly encountered in nosocomial infections.
  • (8) 'He's vulgar – but honest': Filipinos on Duterte's first 100 days in office Read more The inquiry is being led by senator Leila de Lima, a staunch critic of Duterte’s anti-drug campaign that has left more than 3,000 suspected drug users and dealers dead since he assumed the presidency in June .
  • (9) for which Taylor won her second Oscar, playing the bitter, 52-year-old, vulgar wife of a self-loathing professor (Burton).
  • (10) The chaddi [underwear] symbolises vulgarity, something Muthalik's men indulged in when they molested the girls in Mangalore, and pink adds shock value.
  • (11) Ideally they should also possess the sort of clipped tones that make vulgarities sound like Virgil and the sort of wardrobe that dresses up deviousness as a gentleman's sport.
  • (12) In his letter to the BBC, the ambassador wrote: "The presenters of the programme resorted to outrageous, vulgar and inexcusable insults to stir bigoted feelings against the Mexican people, their culture as well as their official representative in the United Kingdom.
  • (13) Biochemical analyses of the dorsal integument of the isopod, Armadillidium vulgare, revealed that sepiapterin, biopterin, pterin, isoxanthopterin and uric acid accumulated in the yellow-colored chromatophores which are distinguishable from ommochrome chromatophores.
  • (14) The prank involved a man saying a vulgar phrase on air while Shauna Hunt, a reporter with Toronto-based television news channel CityNews, interviewed fans after a soccer match.
  • (15) With the exception of Verrucae vulgares and plantares the epidemiology of these types of warts displays significantly different patterns.
  • (16) The geranyl and linalyl precursors were shown to be mutually competitive substrates (inhibitors) of the relevant cyclization enzymes isolated from Salvia officinalis (sage) and Tanacetum vulgare (tansy) by the mixed substrate analysis method, demonstrating that isomerization and cyclization take place at the same active site.
  • (17) It’s like that sick, sinking feeling you get when you’re walking down the street minding your own business and some guy yells out vulgar words about your body.
  • (18) You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books.
  • (19) Across Manhattan, authors, editors and agents alike work on computer, and make full use of email as a means of avoiding embarrassing and vulgar conversations.
  • (20) Too much money is involved, too much sex, too many vulgarly inflated egos, too much that is peripheral to the game.