Vandalism, Gothicism†; mauvis gout [Fr.], bad taste; gaucherie,
awkwardness, want of tact; ill-breeding &c (discourtesy) 895.
courseness &c adj.†; indecorum, misbehavior.
lowness, homeliness; low life, mauvais ton [Fr.], rusticity;
boorishness &c adj.; brutality; rowdyism, blackguardism†; ribaldry;
slang &c (neology) 563.
bad joke, mauvais plaisanterie [Fr.].
[Excess of ornament] gaudiness, tawdriness; false ornament;
finery, frippery, trickery, tinsel, gewgaw, clinquant†; baroque, rococo.
rough diamond, tomboy, hoyden, cub, unlicked cub†; clown &c
(commonalty) 876; Goth, Vandal, Boeotian; snob, cad, gent; parvenu &c
876; frump, dowdy; slattern &c 653.
V. be vulgar &c adj.; misbehave; talk shop, smell of the shop.
Adj. in bad taste vulgar, unrefined.
coarse, indecorous, ribald, gross; unseemly, unbeseeming†,
unpresentable†; contra bonos mores [Lat.]; ungraceful &c (ugly) 846.
dowdy; slovenly &c (dirty) 653; ungenteel, shabby genteel; low,
common, hoi polloi [Gr.], &c (plebeian) 876; uncourtly†; uncivil &c
(discourteous) 895; ill bred, ill mannered; underbred; ungentlemanly,
ungentlemanlike; unladylike, unfeminine; wild, wild as an unbacked
colt.
untutored, unschooled (ignorant) 491.
unkempt.
uncombed, untamed, unlicked†, unpolished, uncouth; plebeian;
incondite†; heavy, rude, awkward; homely, homespun, home bred;
provincial, countrified, rustic; boorish, clownish; savage, brutish,
blackguard, rowdy, snobbish; barbarous, barbaric; Gothic, unclassical†,
doggerel, heathenish, tramontane, outlandish; uncultivated; Bohemian.
obsolete &c (antiquated) 124; unfashionable; newfangled &c
(unfamiliar) 83; odd &c (ridiculous) 853.
particular; affected &c 855; meretricious; extravagant, monstrous,
horrid; shocking &c (painful) 830.
gaudy, tawdry, overornamented, baroque, rococo; bedizened, tricked
out, gingerbread; obtrusive.