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Foul

adjective

(compar. fouler; superl. foulest)

1.

Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust. Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky. "Distasteful language" , "A loathsome disease" , "The idea of eating meat is repellent to me" , "Revolting food" , "A wicked stench"

2.

Offensively malodorous. Synonyms: fetid, foetid, foul-smelling, funky, ill-scented, noisome, smelly, stinking. "The kitchen smelled really funky"

3.

Violating accepted standards or rules. Synonyms: cheating, dirty, unsporting, unsportsmanlike. "Used foul means to gain power" , "A nasty unsporting serve" , "Fined for unsportsmanlike behavior"

4.

(of a baseball) not hit between the foul lines. Antonym: fair.

5.

(of a manuscript) defaced with changes. Synonyms: dirty, marked-up.

6.

Characterized by obscenity. Synonyms: cruddy, filthy, nasty, smutty. "Foul language" , "Smutty jokes"

7.

Disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter. Synonyms: filthy, nasty. "A foul pond" , "A nasty pigsty of a room"

8.

Especially of a ship's lines etc. Synonyms: afoul, fouled. "A foul anchor"

noun

1.

An act that violates the rules of a sport.

verb

(past & past part. fouled; pres. part. fouling)

1.

Hit a foul ball.

2.

Make impure. Synonyms: contaminate, pollute.

3.

Become or cause to become obstructed. Synonyms: back up, choke, choke off, clog, clog up, congest. "The water pipe is backed up" Antonym: unclog.

4.

Commit a foul; break the rules.

5.

Spot, stain, or pollute. Synonyms: befoul, defile, maculate.

6.

Make unclean.

7.

Become soiled and dirty.

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"Foul" Quotes from Famous Books

... when at a discount in the market, should be received at par by the collectors of the revenue. This enactment, if honestly carried into effect, would have been unobjectionable. But it was strongly rumoured that there had been foul play, peculation, even forgery. Duncombe threw the most serious imputations on the Board of Treasury, and pretended that he had been put out of his office only because he was too shrewd to be deceived, and too honest to join in deceiving the public. Tories and malecontent Whigs, elated by ...

— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 5 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... to be out in the fields again after the foul odors of the night, and the travelers were off before dawn. The country looked more familiar to Mackay this morning, for they passed through wheat and barley fields. It seemed so strange to wander over a man's farm by a footpath, but it was a Chinese ...

— The Black-Bearded Barbarian (George Leslie Mackay) • Mary Esther Miller MacGregor, AKA Marion Keith

... standing reproach and terror of his descendants. For nearly a half century the very name of Jay Gould has been a persisting jeer and by-word, an object of popular contumely and hatred, the signification of every foul and base crime by which ...

— Great Fortunes from Railroads • Gustavus Myers

... same law, the positive evils of corrupt government are bound to fall heaviest upon the poorest and least capable. When the water of Chicago is foul, the prosperous buy water bottled at distant springs; the poor have no alternative but the typhoid fever which comes from using the city's supply. When the garbage contracts are not enforced, the well-to-do pay for private service; the poor suffer the discomfort ...

— Democracy and Social Ethics • Jane Addams

... countenance, without even a frown on his brow, for a quarter of an hour; and at the end of that time he got up and shook himself. It was not true. Whatever might be the explanation, it could not be true. There was some foul plot against his happiness; but whatever the nature of the plot might be, he was sure that the story as told to him in that letter was not true. And yet it was with a very heavy heart that he rose and walked ...

— Kept in the Dark • Anthony Trollope

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