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US
/ˈfaʊɫnəs/
]
[ UK /fˈaʊlnəs/ ]
[ UK /fˈaʊlnəs/ ]
NOUN
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disgusting wickedness and immorality
his display of foulness deserved severe punishment
he understood the foulness of sin
mouths which speak such foulness must be cleansed -
(of weather) the badness of the weather
they were wearied with the foulness of the weather - the attribute of having a strong offensive smell
- a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse
How To Use foulness In A Sentence
- His semi in ‘Foulness, near Southend’ has long been reduced to ‘a condition of untouchable sordor’, and is also ‘saturated with pornography in all its forms’.
- She brought her one and only glimpse of the Iad to mind now, in all its vastness and foulness. EVERVILLE
- Of course, their eyes, skin, tongue, breath, and lack of vim and vigor tell the story of a long process of self-poisoning, with every now and then the eventuation of a storm of foulness, called a bilious attack -- meaning an overflow of filth. Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis
- they were wearied with the foulness of the weather
- I couldn't run, or even move, for fear that the watery goop covering the floor would splash up and cover me with its oozing foulness.
- Also contributing to the discussion were changes in the middle-class conception of the home, heightened fears about the foulness of the body, and new ideas about the human relationship with nature.
- Now that people have had a few (small) doses of Arnespeak (like "incent" as a verb), it's time to get ready for the full foulness of the programs. Let's Be Sick, But
- We passed through a range of low arches, descended, passed on, and descending again, arrived at a deep crypt, in which the foulness of the air caused our flambeaux rather to glow than flame.
- Verily not, said Habundia, nor why thou art not clad in the fair green gown which thou didst broider; for whiles I have seen the witch flaunting it on the wooden ugly body of her, and thou wouldst not wear it after she had cursed it with her foulness. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
- For twenty years it has been demonstrated to my mind that almost every case of chronic constipation, biliousness, intestinal foulness, diarrhea, indigestion, self-poisoning Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis
