Unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values; SYN. contemptibility, despicableness, despicability.

1. The quality of being deliberately mean; SYN. meanness.
2. (British) Unpleasant nastiness; used especially of nasty weather.

Mean-spirited disagreeable contrariness; SYN. orneriness.

State of being infested with lice; odiousness, repugnance; meanness, baseness

Extreme stinginess; SYN. minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness, closeness.

Underhanded or unscrupulous behavior; also; a devious device or trick

ETYM Cf. French vulgarité, Latin vulgaritas the multitude.
1. The quality or state of being vulgar; mean condition of life; the state of the lower classes of society.
2. Grossness or clownishness of manners of language; absence of refinement; coarseness.