Foulness

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The quality or state of being foul or filthy; impurity; filthiness; defilement; pollution; corruption: as, the foulness of a cellar or of a well; the foulness of a musket: the foulness of a, ship's bottom.
  • noun. Ugliness; deformity.
  • noun. Unfairness; dishonesty; atrociousness; villainy; treachery; abusiveness; scurrility: as, the foulness of a blow or a scheme; the foulness of a slander or crime.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The quality or condition of being foul.
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  • noun. The state of being foul
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  • noun. a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse
  • noun. (of weather) the badness of the weather
  • noun. the attribute of having a strong offensive smell
  • noun. disgusting wickedness and immorality
  • Word Usage
    "The sun was not idle, and the steaming thaw washed the mud and foulness from the bergs till they blazed like heaped diamonds in the brightness, or shimmered opalescent-blue."
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