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► 名詞
  [(2)ぞく]    meaning:  popular  rank: 4
☆ 好き音楽は俗受けするものとは違う ⇨ The music I like are quite different from what the mass likes

► 形容動詞
  [(2)ぞく]    meaning:  common  rank: 2
☆ Aは俗にBとばれている ⇨ A is commonly called B  (☛ Often implies inaccuracy)

  [(2)ぞく]    meaning:  vulgar  rank: 3
☆ があんなに俗なとはわなかった ⇨ I didn’t think he was that vulgar, with poor taste, little principle
☆ 金儲けのことばっかりの俗な ⇨ Someone low who only thinks about money making


More examples:
  • 彼女王家人間というにしては俗っぽぎる ⇨ She seems too vulgar for a member of the royal family
  • 大衆風俗 ⇨ Popular culture
  • それは俗説で、科学的証拠い ⇨ That’s just a popular theory, urban legend, and there is absolutely no scientific proof
  • 通俗的な表現使っ ⇨ A poem written with popular, common, plain, expressions, language
  • 風俗産業 ⇨ Sex industry
  • 低俗な有名人ゴシップ番組 ⇨ Smutty celebrity gossip shows
  • 当時の世俗的習慣 ⇨ A common practice at the time
  • 俗語辞典 ⇨ A slang dictionary
  • のような俗物が統領になるとは米国堕ちたものだ ⇨ US have fallen so much to have a man with no class like him as the president
  • この教材技術用語から俗語までてを網羅している ⇨ This teaching material covers everything from technical terms to slangs
  • 風俗店の地域 ⇨ An area with a lot of sex business
  • AはBと俗称されている ⇨ A is commonly called B