vulgarize
- v cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use
Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors - v debase and make vulgar
The Press has vulgarized Love and Marriage - v act in a vulgar manner
The drunkard tends to vulgarize
- Gandhi's ashes were not cold before the world began to vulgarize his saintliness by insisting, against the facts, that .
- To vulgarize the dead is bad enough, but Pickwick does something worseit anesthetizes the living.
- And Gandhi's ashes were not cold before the world had begun to vulgarize his saintliness (as it had vulgarized Lincoln's) by insisting, against the facts, that there was no .