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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.

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"

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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... deny. It has been the great curse of this Country from its infancy to the present hour, And now that the States in Rebellion have given the Loyal States the opportunity to take off that curse, to wipe away the foul stain, I say let it be done. We owe it to ourselves; we owe it to posterity; we owe it to the Slaves themselves to exterminate Slavery forever by the adoption of the proposed Amendment to the Constitution. * * ...

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... to exercise that greatest of all rights, bestowed by a beneficent God upon his rational creatures, namely, the government of themselves by themselves. Acting upon this opinion, an opinion as false as it is foul—acting upon this opinion, as upon a self-evident proposition, those who held it proceeded with a fiendish consistency to deny the rights of citizens to those whom they had declared incapable of performing ...

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... gained the east bridge, there was no small tumult in progress. For a handful of scholars, on their way to morning lecture, had fallen foul of a handful of yeomen bound for the fields, and were stoutly disputing the passage. When I appeared, I was claimed at once by the scholars as one of them, and willy-nilly, had to throw in my lot with them. The fight was a sharp one, for the yeomen had their sticks and shares ...

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