ADJECTIVE
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made dirty or foul
a building befouled with soot
breathing air fouled and darkened with factory soot
How To Use befouled In A Sentence
- The realization that the pesticide-laced foods we eat, the smokestack-befouled air we breathe and the petrochemical-based products we use negatively affect our quality of life is a big part of the reason so many people have "gone green" in recent years. The Link Between The Environment And Our Health
- The fact that one of the rotten little orphans had befouled her room with mud and muck had not helped matters.
- This green and pleasant land in the Guardian argues similarly that it's about ‘a Britain that is either green and pleasant, made diligent by cottage industries, or befouled by factories’.
- The world doesn't need another dish befouled by blackberry vinaigrette.
- The AP reports that a magistrate set bond at $10,000 each after they made their initial court appearances wearing red prison jumpsuits because the pants they were wearing when they were arrested were so befouled, they had to be destroyed. Think Progress » Fox News Devastated Over Arrest Of ACORN Pimp, Says The Story Probably Needs ‘A Lot Of Context’
- The air was clouded with dust and increasingly befouled by the odors of animal farm-factories.
- Like most messy eaters, most of the food ends up unusable and befouled.
- Nay," declared a dumpy figure with big ears and the frenzied face of a maniacal toadfish, "we must work together to defeat the likes of the late and unlamented Susnam Evyndd, may his pure and noble soul lie corrupted and befouled forever. Kingdoms of Light
- Even Ken Follett, whose truly appalling novel World Without End befouled my mind for a fortnight, can been seen to have a positive effect; when I was reading some reviews to see if anyone else thought it as bad as I did, I came across a couple of approbatory references to Sharon Kay Penman, along the lines of "this is how it should be done". :Acquired Taste
- And indeed — though I now know that Allah is everywhere and in all things — there were times when the distance between Allah and I seemed so great, so impassable, that I thought my prayers at salat were lost in the hell-red, befouled city sky, diverted from Mecca and stolen by nefarious djinn. The Parable of the Spider