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Foulness

noun

Disgusting wickedness and immorality. "His display of foulness deserved severe punishment" , "Mouths which speak such foulness must be cleansed"

A state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse. Synonyms: filth, filthiness, nastiness.

(of weather) the badness of the weather. Synonym: raininess.

The attribute of having a strong offensive smell. Synonyms: fetidness, malodorousness, rankness, stinkiness.

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"Foulness" Quotes from Famous Books

... this repulsiveness was due to the coarseness and foulness of the meal, the wretched cooking, and the lack of salt, but there was a still more potent reason than all these. Nature does not intend that man shall live by bread alone, nor by any one kind of food. She indicates this by the varying tastes and ...

— Andersonville, complete • John McElroy

... was robbed of fulfilment by the loose mouth with the slime of the gutter and sensuality of the beast writ large upon its thick lips. From the thin peaked nose upwards it was the face of a son of the gods who knew his parentage and birthright; but downward that of a human swine who loved the foulness of the trough for the trough's sake. A Poet of poets, said the eyes: Slime of the gutter and old age unashamed of its shame, retorted the mouth; and both spoke truth. Evidently his scrutiny satisfied him, for he heaved a sigh of contentment as he ...

— The Justice of the King • Hamilton Drummond

... no longer come up the Thames, they came on to the Essex coast, to Harwich and Walton and Clacton, and afterwards to Foulness and Shoebury, to bring off the people. They lay in a huge sickle-shaped curve that vanished into mist at last towards the Naze. Close inshore was a multitude of fishing smacks—English, Scotch, French, Dutch, and Swedish; steam launches from the Thames, yachts, electric boats; and beyond were ships ...

— The War of the Worlds • H. G. Wells

... clear and transparent, different altogether from the muddy foulness of the lower reaches. And the country around lost the density of matted jungle and undulated in a succession of grassy stretches through which cropped great round hummocks of sandy hills. The stream ...

— Gold Out of Celebes • Aylward Edward Dingle

... feasted and gloated on the disgusting details of adultery and incest? They were repelled and sickened by such odious and unnatural wickedness—he was attracted and delighted. What to them was the foulness of pollution, seemed to him the beauty of innocence. What to them was the blast from hell, to him was the air from heaven. They read and they condemned. They asked each other "What manner of man is this?" ...

— Famous Reviews • Editor: R. Brimley Johnson

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