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Vulgar society rejected by fashionable family in the past? (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

indecent

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'vulgar' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'by fashionable family in the past?' is the wordplay.
'by' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'fashionable' becomes 'in' (in can mean fashionable or trendy).
'family in the past?' becomes 'decent' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'in' put next to 'decent' is 'INDECENT'.

'society rejected' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.

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(Other definitions for indecent that I've seen before include "Risque" , "Immodest or obscene" , "Offensive to common modesty" , "Gross, obscene" , "Lewd" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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