[
UK
/fˈaʊl/
]
[ US /ˈfaʊɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈfaʊɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
characterized by obscenity
had a filthy mouth
smutty jokes
foul language -
disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter
a foul pond
a nasty pigsty of a room
as filthy as a pigsty -
(of a manuscript) defaced with changes
foul (or dirty) copy -
violating accepted standards or rules
a dirty fighter
fined for unsportsmanlike behavior
used foul means to gain power
a nasty unsporting serve -
offensively malodorous
the kitchen smelled really funky
a foul odor -
highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
a disgusting smell
a loathsome disease
revolting food
a wicked stench
distasteful language
the idea of eating meat is repellent to me - (of a baseball) not hit between the foul lines
-
especially of a ship's lines etc
with its sails afoul
a foul anchor
VERB
-
make impure
The industrial wastes polluted the lake - become soiled and dirty
-
make unclean
foul the water - commit a foul; break the rules
- hit a foul ball
-
spot, stain, or pollute
The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it -
become or cause to become obstructed
The leaves clog our drains in the Fall
The water pipe is backed up
NOUN
- an act that violates the rules of a sport
How To Use foul In A Sentence
- It gives a little bling to the foulard and the masculine touch gives it an astute edge. Gina Pell: What To Wear In 2010
- A couple of coats of new antifouling paint may cost the equivalent of a couple tanks of gas, but you will keep saving money on fuel all season long.
- You would commit the most foul of murders out of loyalty to me.
- He picked up his first booking for a 45th-minute foul on Bull.
- They described ‘torture techniques’ and claimed that detainees had been forced into painful positions for 18 to 24 hours at a time or left to foul themselves.
- Although he showed by laying down some bunts he knows what he can do with his speed, he hasn't mastered the tactic and bunts the ball foul or into outs.
- Well, my boy Joey is eight years old, and he's a foul-mouthed dumb-ass little loser just like his father.
- I shrank inside and out from the fog and what it held-so alien to my flesh and spirit that to come even this close to it was befoulment beyond the finding of words. Year of the Unicorn
- Both father and son knew that she would be in a foul mood.
- 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’.