moral vs vulgar

moral

noun
  • Moral practices or teachings: modes of conduct. 

  • The ethical significance or practical lesson. 

adj
  • Probable but not proved. 

  • Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially for teaching right behaviour. 

  • Conforming to a standard of right behaviour; sanctioned by or operative on one's conscience or ethical judgment. 

  • Capable of right and wrong action. 

  • Positively affecting the mind, confidence, or will. 

verb
  • To moralize. 

vulgar

noun
  • The common people. 

  • The vernacular tongue or common language of a country. 

  • A common, ordinary person. 

adj
  • Being a vulgar fraction. 

  • Common, usual; of the typical kind. 

  • Debased, uncouth, distasteful, obscene. 

  • Having to do with ordinary, common people. 

How often have the words moral and vulgar occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )