• Those who are addicted to the phrase "to use a vulgarism" expect to achieve the feat of being at once vulgar and superior to vulgarity.

    Henry Watson Fowler: Those who are addicted to the phrase "to use a vulgarism" expect to achieve the feat of being at once vulgar and superior to vulgarity.
    Henry Watson Fowler (1994). “A Dictionary of Modern English Usage”, p.352, Wordsworth Editions