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foul play

NOUN
  1. unfair or dishonest behavior (especially involving violence)

How To Use foul play In A Sentence

  • Australian authorities have found no signs of foul play aboard a Taiwanese fishing boat found adrift and abandoned off western Australia.
  • Two of them appeared to be the victims of foul play. Times, Sunday Times
  • The report says it suspects foul play was involved in the deaths of two journalists.
  • He dismissed speculations that the fire was ignited by electrical faults or caused by foul play.
  • The police said they had no reason to suspect foul play .
  • It is serious foul play because he will be using excessive force and endangering the safety of the opponent. Times, Sunday Times
  • Then a piercing panic hit me: What if the lawyers found this broken glass? Of course they'd suspect foul play.
  • The referee should be able to enforce a substitution when a player has committed an act that was reckless but not intentional foul play. Times, Sunday Times
  • The penalty that followed did not account for the impact of the foul play.
  • Judge Isabel Oliva said last night: "I have closed the case. There was no foul play.".
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