Chabacano in english
Vulgar
pronunciation: vʌlgɜr part of speech: adjective
pronunciation: vʌlgɜr part of speech: adjective
In gestures
chabacano = gaudy ; vulgar ; tawdry ; gawky ; garish ; lurid ; tasteless ; crass ; loutish ; shoddy ; slipshod ; caddish ; sleazy ; raffish.
Example: Less gaudy techniques are usually in the end more successful.Example: This paper is a somewhat whimsical glance backwards, recalling 6 vulgar American parodies of 7 enduring songs.Example: This article looks at 'fairness' in the book trade today, and some of the tawdry tricks indulged in by publishers, agents and authors at each other's expense.Example: His zany humor, gawky production, and sexual exhibitionism have grown in this new film into a confident, ironic account of a world in which it pays to be rich and beautiful.Example: Some of the streets transform at night with garish neon lights and red lanterns signifying houses of pleasure.Example: When she discovered vintage comics and their lurid covers, she went nuts.Example: Of the hundreds of figurines currently on the market, here are the most bizarrely tasteless.Example: In these new book, he is still at bay, pursued by the hounds of desire and anxiety in a literary world ever more crass.Example: London is a teeming haven of loutish boors whose idea of sophistication is to get drunk and tell bawdy gags.Example: The records are not what they should be and very often they're just plain shoddy.Example: Nature meant him for a slipshod, shambling Bohemian -- happy, out-at-the-elbows, always in debt, always irresponsible, and always pursued by duns and bailiffs.Example: He made a very boorish, embarassing, humiliating, inappropriate, caddish toast at their wedding.Example: My first reaction was disgust that anyone would resort to such sleazy behavior.Example: He is well known for his debonair style, raffish good looks and often mischievous joie de vivre.more:
» demasiado chabacano = all too shabby .
Example: The author compares the high tech dreams of access to information technology for US school libraries with the all too shabby reality that currently exists.