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Befouled

adjective
1.
Made dirty or foul.  Synonym: fouled.  "Breathing air fouled and darkened with factory soot"





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"Befouled" Quotes from Famous Books



... To me the century I shut out will always be the nineteenth century, just as your national anthem will always be God Save the Queen, no matter how many kings may succeed. I found England befouled with industrialism: well, I did what Byron did: I simply refused to live in it. You remember Byron's words: "I am sure my bones would not rest in an English grave, or my clay mix with the earth of that country. ...
— Fanny's First Play • George Bernard Shaw
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... of such disgraceful banter as we trust few bar-keepers in America would bestow upon a bully killed in a pot-house fray. General Butler, for a verbal infelicity in an order of imperative necessity and wholesome effect, has been befouled by language which no careful historian would apply to Tiberius or Louis XV. But enough of this. We should be glad to believe that these utterers of false witness were boorish men, in dark and desperate ignorance of the ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XI., February, 1863, No. LXIV. • Various
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Words linked to "Befouled" :   dirty, unclean, soiled


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