vulgarize
vulgarise BrE

"I had to break that rather Italian image and vulgarize it."

He thought: we can vulgarize everything but not this.

That was also a problem in the third movement, which started too fast and ended even faster, vulgarized.

Too bad you had to vulgarize the article with the sexually-tinged cover photo.

Many places in this neighborhood are also vulgarized by grotesque names.

Was the 60's "love culture" this savagely vulgarized on network television in its time?

"It's the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing."

One pamphleteer vulgarized him as a man "unnatural" in all things.

He also had to ignore accusations that he was vulgarizing the place.

Europeans have accused popular music of vulgarizing its use.

The second, in Russia, grew angry, telling her the show would debase and vulgarize the works.

The music of a genius had been imitated, appropriated and, finally, vulgarized.

The Eiffel Tower cannot be vulgarized, even after a century.

Also it is a humane trade which is not capable of being vulgarized beyond a certain point.

A good cook, evidently, though somewhat vulgarized by recent service with an American family who liked bits of pineapple all over things.

They also said he had vulgarized the annual commemoration of Lee's birthday and commercialized the building.

The prose, like the layout, is designed to engage a layman without vulgarizing the science, or, at least, not too much.

"What I am always trying to do is to idealize a woman's form, never to vulgarize it or to expose it," he said.

The modern Colour prejudice against gold and other tints is perhaps because painted work has been vulgarized.

"The modern method is to vulgarize them.

Because of that, Spanish dancing has often been vulgarized, and the art has fallen into banalities.

I reduced itto sound bites and vulgarized it in the name of accessibility.

And, my goodness, how they have vulgarized it!"

In this chapter Levi addresses what it means for "professional wrestling to be vulgarized" as a televised sport.

Massine, for his part, was attacked for vulgarizing symphonic music.

You must admit, Hirst, that a little Italian town even would vulgarise the whole scene, would detract from the vastness--the sense of elemental grandeur."

This slight touch of rouge will not altogether vulgarise the face . . . Twice already, she has had to scrub her cheeks clean, having rendered them, if not exactly vulgar, not exactly ladylike either.

I had bought her a pair of ear-rings in Cartier's yesterday afternoon-three diamonds in a string, the pendant being a wonderful pear-shaped blue-white, and as she ate, and drank, and talked, they waggled behind the angle of her jaw in the most deliciously fascinating way, and it didn't vulgarise her at all.