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in an unfair and insulting manner
this internationally known writer was foully condemned by the Muslim fundamentalists -
in a wicked and shameful manner
two policemen were foully murdered
How To Use foully In A Sentence
- Another day, another study, about grown women being foully and pointlessly competitive with each other, this time focusing on levels of one-upmanship on the school run. Save me from these silly school run myths | Barbara Ellen
- Old mouth McEnroe, who can't stop himself from foully abusing anyone in authority with whom he disagrees.
- In a word, I may say that he who does not estimate the base and evil, the good and noble, according to the standard of the legislator, and abstain in every possible way from the one and practise the other to the utmost of his power, does not know that in all these respects he is most foully and disgracefully abusing his soul, which is the divinest part of man; for no one, as Laws
- “I'd gurgle last words as you choked me to death, and curse you quite foully with my dying breath.” The Couple Who Loved Murder
- Look to yourself, Master Varney," said Foster, "you may misreckon foully in this matter. Kenilworth
- “Look to yourself, Master Varney,” said Foster, “you may misreckon foully in this matter. Kenilworth
- A feminist wore pants, smoked, drank, spoke foully, flaunted her promiscuity; in short she did everything those men had done and got away with for centuries.
- The Richard III Society remains firmly convinced that Richard III was foully traduced by revisionists like William Shakespeare and other Tudor dynasty hagiographers.
- During our circuit he had displayed a fiery zeal against heresy and schism, by foully abusing every Persian in his path8; and the inopportune introduction of hard words into his prayers made the latter a strange patchwork; as “Ave Maria purissima, — arrah, dont ye be letting the pig at the pot, — sanctissima,” and so forth. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
- Tuesday was quiet, but at the Wednesday 2 a.m. break, the entire staff heard Olag curse, foully and for long minutes.