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vulgarly

adverb

vulgarly is an adverb meaning “In a vulgar manner; obscenely or unrefinedly” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-U-L-G-A-R-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 21 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does vulgarly mean?

adverb

  1. 1

    In a vulgar manner; obscenely or unrefinedly.

  2. 2

    In the manner of the common people.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce vulgarly?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-vulgarly.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of vulgarly

  • more vulgarly comparative
  • most vulgarly superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is vulgarly?

Vulgarly appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you abbreviate vulgarly?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of vulgarly: vulg..

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does vulgarly come from?

From vulgar + -ly.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).