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Synonyms for foulness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : foul-nis |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈfaʊl nɪs |
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Définition of foulness
Origin :- Old English fulness "foulness, filthy smell;" see foul (adj.) + -ness.
- noun obscenity
- noun dirty state
- But not even that cloak could they cast upon their foulness.
- Extract from : « Captain Blood » by Rafael Sabatini
- It has shut out from me all the foulness of that past; and yet I am unworthy.
- Extract from : « The Strolling Saint » by Raphael Sabatini
- And doing it just as a hog wallows in foulness—for the love of it.
- Extract from : « The Lion's Skin » by Rafael Sabatini
- Tell them of the foulness, of the cruelty, of the senselessness of it all.
- Extract from : « All Roads Lead to Calvary » by Jerome K. Jerome
- "Yet they say this has to be done;" and he bowed under the weight of the foulness of this girl.
- Extract from : « En Route » by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
- He does not know that I am aware of all his foulness and villainy.
- Extract from : « Princess Zara » by Ross Beeckman
- It was from within, apparently, that the foulness and horror had come.
- Extract from : « The Picture of Dorian Gray » by Oscar Wilde
- Gangrene was in all the wards, the filth and foulness of the atmosphere were fearful.
- Extract from : « Woman's Work in the Civil War » by Linus Pierpont Brockett
- Her interest in the disease overcame her disgust at the foulness of the revelation.
- Extract from : « Democracy An American Novel » by Henry Adams
- The foulness of the air and filth which this entailed may be too easily imagined.
- Extract from : « Tracks of a Rolling Stone » by Henry J. Coke
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