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foul English

Meaning foul meaning

What does foul mean?
Definitions in simple English

foul Noun

— Something that goes against the rules in a sport. After a bad foul, a soccer player has to leave the game

foul Adjective

— Bad, or having a bad smell. We left the meat too many days, and now it is foul and we can't eat it. There's a foul smell in the bathroom.

foul

— verb hit a foul ball — verb (= pollute) make impure The industrial wastes polluted the lake — adjective (= dirty, unsporting, unsportsmanlike) violating accepted standards or rules a dirty fighter used foul means to gain power a nasty unsporting serve fined for unsportsmanlike behavior — adjective (= funky) offensively malodorous a foul odor the kitchen smelled really funky — adjective (= disgusting, distasteful, loathsome, repellent, repellant, revolting, wicked) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust a disgusting smell distasteful language a loathsome disease the idea of eating meat is repellent to me revolting food a wicked stench — adjective (of a baseball) not hit between the foul lines — verb commit a foul; break the rules — verb become soiled and dirty — verb make unclean foul the water — verb (= defile) spot, stain, or pollute The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it — noun an act that violates the rules of a sport — adjective (= dirty) (of a manuscript) defaced with changes foul (or dirty) copy — adjective (= afoul, fouled) especially of a ship's lines etc with its sails afoul a foul anchor — adjective (= filthy, nasty) disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter as filthy as a pigsty a foul pond a nasty pigsty of a room — adjective (= filthy, smutty) characterized by obscenity had a filthy mouth foul language smutty jokes — verb (= clog, back up) become or cause to become obstructed The leaves clog our drains in the Fall The water pipe is backed up

Synonyms foul synonyms

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foul English » English

dirty nasty filthy vile stinking disgusting bad unclean impure defile fetid rotten repulsive loathsome wicked soiled soil abominable putrid muddy lousy evil smelly rank pollute mean low unfair turbid fouled contaminate stained revolting noisome foul-smelling detestable befoul stain smirch repellent rainy obscene gross grimy base awful taint squalid smutty smell

Topics foul topics

What do people use foul to talk about?
Person Sense, perceive

Smell
Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation Sports

Basketball
Universe, creation Sky

Weather
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad Sad

Disgusted
Social behavior Behavior Good, moral

Bad, immoral
Person Life Die

Kill
Language and thought Communication Foolish talk

Obscenity

  • What words describe someone who uses obscenities a lot?
    foul-mouthed

Conjugation foul conjugation

How do you conjugate foul?

foul · verb

Examples foul examples

How do I use foul in a sentence?

Simple sentences

No love is foul nor prison fair.
You have foul breath.
It's foul of you to have concealed it.
The air in this room is foul.
He uses foul language whenever he gets angry.
I am thy father's spirit; doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, and, for the day, confin'd to waste in fires till the foul crimes done in my days of nature are burnt and purg'd away.
Tom is in a foul mood today.
Friendship is a ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but none in foul.
Fair is foul, and foul is fair: hover through the fog and filthy air.
He will never play you foul.
The police found no signs of foul play in the apartment.
It was a foul play.
Mary has been in a foul mood all week.
There is a foul odor in the air.

Movie subtitles

No Longer like a toad in these foul cellarswill i secrete the venom of hatred for you shall bring me love!
In life she will now become the foul thing of the night that he is.
You won this round, sir, by a foul blow.
Mr. Hornblower? Will you fight foul, so shall we.
We will not be foul played towards you and yours. You're outside the pale.
It's a foul shame. A lying slander.
And once nearly ran a foul of an English frigate.
Put those back, you foul.
Whatever's foul between you and Manuel. you will have to free and clear yourself.
All in good time! - Hang the foul-mouth!
Personal foul.
We're the victims of a foul disease called social prejudice, my child.
Stop using those foul words.
There was murder as well- foul, bloody murder. murder that cries aloud for justice against its perpetrator.
The governor is in a foul mood.
In life, she will now become the foul thing of the night that he is.
Don't foul that hauser there!
Foul ball!
Foul!
Foul?
Foul.
Isn't it a dirty trick? - Isn't it foul?
In his place sits a viper so foul and black.
Unhand me, foul minions of the law!
I must have her hat at any cost. by fair means or foul.
He won the technical decision over Sandy Brown by claiming a foul.
His second fight was with Cocky Wexler. He dropped to his back in the second round and again claimed a foul but the referee counted him out.
But not by yelling foul the first time you're hit below the eyes.
And for that, I have been confined to this foul cell for ten long days.
Strikes me as a pretty foul thing to say about the public.
It's a conspiracy. A foul conspiracy!
Do you know the world is a foul sty?
That's a foul fault.
It's a foul ball.
I'm used to shooting in foul weather.

News and current affairs

But the idea has always fallen foul of two objections: societies are too poor to afford it, and it would be a disincentive to work.
Foul play!
But does the uncertainty now circling Blair like a vulture now smell the appetizingly foul scent of a lie?
Moreover, Britain was not the only EU member to fall foul of the recalculation.
Until then, China will continue to press its claims by whatever means - fair or foul - it deems advantageous.
Who emits into our political and public life the poisons of dissension, foul play, egoism, hatred and envy?

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