vulgar
adj.adj. rude or offensive, especially when talking about sex or the body. You use this word to describe language or behavior that is not polite.
adj. relating to sex or bodily functions in a way that is considered rude or offensive. Often used to describe language that is not suitable for formal or polite company.
He used a vulgar word to describe the mess.
The manager asked the team to avoid vulgar jokes during the client meeting.
The author's use of vulgar imagery serves to ground the lofty philosophical themes in the gritty reality of everyday life.
From Middle English vulgare, from Latin vulgāris, from volgus, vulgus (“mob; common folk”), from Proto-Indo-European *wl̥k-. Compare Welsh gwala (“plenty, sufficiency”), Ancient Greek ἁλία (halía, “assembly”), εἰλέω (eiléō, “to compress”), Old Church Slavonic великъ (velikŭ, “great”).
Often paired with 'language' or 'expression'. Can also mean 'common' or 'ordinary' in older literary texts.