The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word VULGAR
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result VULGAR
- Coarse east European taking Victor for British
- Common tease, darling turning back
- Coarse fish, with love, thrown back
- Former queen constraining Gaul, unruly, unrefined
- Crude newspaper; Liberal, upper-class, very revolting
- . Common // kind of fraction
- Coarse variety keeps swelling in the middle
- Old Queen caught posh gal acting common
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The straight part
We know that "common" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case common = vulgar.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does VULGAR mean?
VULGAR noun- (classicism) A common, ordinary person.
- (collective) The common people.
- The vernacular tongue or common language of a country.
- Debased, uncouth, distasteful, obscene.
- (classical sense) Having to do with ordinary, common people.
- Common, usual; of the typical kind.