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US
/ˈfaʊɫnəs/
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[ 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
- So, inverting the condition of the city clerk in the days when London was scarce inhabitable because of the coaly foulness of its air, the labourers now came hurrying by road or air to the city and its life and delights at night to leave it again in the morning. When the Sleeper Wakes
- he understood the foulness of sin
- 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
- He could put up with the loss of supplies of things like iodine and calamine lotion, since there were alternatives that worked just as well, but there had been no supply of boracic acid ever since the outbreak of the war, since that particular substance had always come from the volcanic steam of Tuscany; it was the best drug he knew of for coping with infections of the bladder and foulness of the urine. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
- In addition, though, many forms of alcohol contain additives known as ‘congeners’ which have their own role to play in the thick head and general foulness a big night out can induce.
- his display of foulness deserved severe punishment
- He ran north, then saw that other men, advancing along the low sea wall that dyked Foulness against the tides, had headed him off. Sharpe's Regiment
- The foulness of the air was a palpable thing, a reek that stunned and then settled upon the senses, a weapon and then a shroud.
- mouths which speak such foulness must be cleansed
- And despite the brutal foulness of the thing's appearance, Tammy felt some measure of sympathy for it. COLDHEART CANYON