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foully

[ UK /fˈa‍ʊli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in an unfair and insulting manner
    this internationally known writer was foully condemned by the Muslim fundamentalists
  2. in a wicked and shameful manner
    two policemen were foully murdered

How To Use foully In A Sentence

  • Also, he fought as foully as a successful fighter knows how. The Mexican
  • Yet perhaps because the book is so skillfully wrought, one wishes that it could have been written without not just foul language but also foully specific images, such as that of a 16-year-old girl sleeping with a sadistic drug dealer. Desperate Kids On the Run
  • But there's power as well as profit in the world of apps, and it can be exercised fairly or foully. I'm a Mac, but you can still hate me
  • Following the passage of staircases to the lowest level, he then went in a stone room, which smelled foully like dead carcasses.
  • two policemen were foully murdered
  • Which merely makes all the more powerful Baker's settled conclusion that weapons inspector Dr David Kelly was murdered most foully and was not, in the words of that most famous Alabama sheriff fishing a black man out of the Mississippi with six bullet holes in his back, called 'the worst case of suicide I've ever seen'. Only The English are British
  • If I do not misreckon foully the queen spoke of both seeing and speaking with him during her progress hither. In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls
  • West-Central classroom, and the rowdy crew of London roughs hulking and hustling on the benches, learning per medium of "the dodger," that one's duty to one's neighbour was not to abuse him foully without cause, to refrain one's hands from pocket-picking, shop-raiding, hustling, and jellying heads with brass-buckled belts or iron knuckle-dusters, and not to get drunk before Saturday night. The Dop Doctor
  • With the deepest dejectedness he squeezed himself into a corner, and Shaykh Nur, who was foully dirty, as an Indian en voyage always is, would have joined him in his shame, had I not ordered the Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
  • In the shallows fell the Captain, foully slain, and rose no more! The Voyage of Magellan
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