vulgarization AmE , also: vulgarisation BrE

To highbrow critics in 1941, it was a vulgarization of taste.

Then, he said, others offer the harshest possible interpretations - a "vulgarization of what has been done."

Imitation, appropriation, vulgarization: in the film, these are Ray's strengths.

The scholars have claimed the high ground against the commercialization and, by implication, the vulgarization of history.

The author is very interested in science vulgarization and tries to stick to the scientific actuality.

But vulgarization is not the answer.

But critics say that given America's fascination with glitz and kitsch, vulgarization may eventually triumph.

"Living in a democratic society means living with the risk of misuse and vulgarization of information.

Who better to expound on its appalling vulgarization of our culture than Buckley, the highly esteemed conservative writer?

("Retelling" plus "modern" in small American opera companies usually means "vulgarization.

Such attempts to modify, intensify or interpret are seen as leading to kitsch, even vulgarization.)

The expansion of their effective historical power went hand in hand with a vulgarization of this illusory-mythical ownership.

She denounced Bernstein's evolutionary socialism for being a "petty-bourgeois vulgarization of Marxism".

Like most eggheads of the period, Pasolini decried the vulgarization of culture by the ubiquitous new medium.

And he fears "the vulgarization and loud vacancies of intellect" that he says must inevitably follow the decline.

The political significance of the vulgarization of high culture is exemplified in the more complicated case of Andy Warhol.

To say that they were suffering from an inferiority complex, would not be wholly false, but it would be a misleading vulgarization of the truth.

But concerns about the vulgarization of Balinese dance and music are certainly exaggerated; the island's arts continue to display a remarkable vitality and diversity.

In an uncooperative and uncompromisable way, it self-consciously resists the threat of assimilation and vulgarization.

What it symbolizes is the vulgarization of ideas which is constantly happening, and which probably happens faster in an age of print.

Today, Mr. Makiya said, "it stands as a monument to the vulgarization of the Iraqi culture."

Under Huard, it became a more accessible journal devoted to vulgarization, and frequently included reports on curiosities and travel notes.

In any case, he continued, Mr. Appleyard was striking wildly at "scientism," a vulgarization of genuine science.

In an ironic vulgarization of Christian symbolism she is 'delivered' from her marriage, her country, and even her religion through the purgative action of language.