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Foulness

noun

Disgusting wickedness and immorality. "His display of foulness deserved severe punishment" , "Mouths which speak such foulness must be cleansed"

A state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse. Synonyms: filth, filthiness, nastiness.

(of weather) the badness of the weather. Synonym: raininess.

The attribute of having a strong offensive smell. Synonyms: fetidness, malodorousness, rankness, stinkiness.

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"Foulness" Quotes from Famous Books

... that afternoon. The grave was dug among some cocoanut palms out beyond the fetid swamp which lay in those days a crescent of foulness on three sides of the town. A wall separated the swamp from the houses, and over this wall the sewage used to be cast. Poles, bearing human heads, stuck out here and there. The swamp was crossed by ...

— Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer • W. C. Scully

... quickly, cleansing with both fire and smoke. When they raked the ashes out with branches, Asaki and Nymani brought in handfuls of leaves which they crumpled and threw on the floor, spreading an aromatic odor which banished most of the foulness. ...

— Voodoo Planet • Andrew North

... greedy of gain, run-aways before peril, readier to pay back injury than kindness. "Worst of all they take middle paths." Upon these, his observations, he proceeds to tell a story of a State and he tells it icily. He lays bare the foulness of man. He doesn't lecture, he does not preach, he never laughs, never scolds, is never surprised. He shows, says Mr. Morley about "as good a heart as can be made out of brains." In my opinion, that sentence is the most terrible indictment in the book. It marks him as ...

— Volume 10 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann

... say in dactylomancy, the 'psychical' of women are not disposed in their sensitive early days to dwell upon the fortunes of their sex: a thought or two turns them facing away, with the repugnant shiver. They worship at a niche in the wall. They cannot avoid imputing some share of foulness to them that are for scouring the chamber; and the civilized male, keeping his own chamber locked, quite shares their pale taper's view. The full-blooded to the finger-tips, on the other hand, are likely to be drawn to the subject, by noble inducement as often as by base: Nature at flood being ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... Jenny's room with its quiet books and flowers, and his heart would ache to think that some day harsh hands must noisily break in upon that sacred silence, and strip it of all its delicate memories. Jenny's room the lair of wild beasts, a nest of foulness and serpents! Sometimes he was thus haunted with the ghosts of those who were to riot up and down these stairs when Jenny's memory had quite died out of these walls like a fragrance of musk ...

— The Romance of Zion Chapel [3d ed.] • Richard Le Gallienne

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