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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
foul-mouthed
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a foul-mouthed man
▪ If kids are foul-mouthed and rude, it's probably because they hear that kind of language at home.
▪ Kinison was known for his screaming, foul-mouthed comic routines.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Foul-mouthed

Foul-mouthed \Foul"-mouthed`\, a. Using language scurrilous, opprobrious, obscene, or profane; abusive; as, noisy foul-mouthed women all shouting at once.

Syn: foul-spoken.

So foul-mouthed a witness never appeared in any cause.
--Addison.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
foul-mouthed

also foulmouthed, 1590s, apparently first in Shakespeare ["Henry IV," 1596]. Earlier were foul-tongued (1540s); foul-spoken (1580s).

Wiktionary
foul-mouthed

a. That uses obscene language

WordNet
foul-mouthed

adj. using foul or obscene language; "noisy foul-mouthed women all shouting at once" [syn: foul-spoken]

Usage examples of "foul-mouthed".

Instead of being a model of exemplary behavior to your juniors in this assemblage and to those outside in the Forum, you conduct yourself like the worst demagogue who ever prated from the rostra, like the most foul-mouthed heckler who ever stood at the back of any Forum crowd!

To them, and to the flies who came calling often enough to be regulars, Tolly Mune was Ma Spiderirascible, foul-mouthed, rough-humored, frighteningly competent, omnipresent, indestructible, as big as a force of nature and twice as mean.

I am a free-born man, high in the councils of my nation, and anyone who calls me a stinkard is a rotten, no-good, foul-mouthed liar!

Krummel, a scholar by intent but a warrior by breeding, assumes command of the 721st Communication Security Detachment, an unsoldierly crew of bored, rebellious, whoring, foul-mouthed, drunken enlistees.

Once a presidential aspirant gets out on the campaign trail and starts seeing visions of himself hunkered down behind that big desk in the Oval Office, the idea of sitting down in his own living room and talking openly with some foul-mouthed, argumentative journalist carrying a tape recorder in one hand and a bottle of Wild Turkey in the other is totally out of the question.

All his hours of classifying and scanning had not revealed what he had learned minutes after being abducted: that these aliens were dirty, haggard, foul-mouthed, and ill-equipped.

I took pleasure in the shameful games which were celebrated in honor of gods and goddesses, of the virgin Coelestis, 90 and Berecynthia, 91 the mother of all the gods And on the holy day consecrated to her purification, there were sung before her couch productions so obscene and filthy for the ear-I do not say of the mother of the gods, but of the mother of any senator or honest man-nay, so impure, that not even the mother of the foul-mouthed players themselves could have formed one of the audience.

When he and foul-mouthed Max made contact with a Red Army unit still in the direct chain of command from Moscow, the Soviets had been effusive in their praise and scrupulously exact in sharing out the precious booty Germans and Russians had combined to seize.

Most of the men he smuggled were a foul-mouthed bunch of villains – bravos, bungs, cutpurses, nose-slitters, ruffians of every description, all of them recruited in the worst bawdy-houses and taverns of London or Paris and then paid a slave's wages to betray their friends and countries, which most were only too eager to do.

They were mostly squat and ugly men, toothless and pinched-faced, villainous and foul-mouthed, but on a battlefield they were kings, and victory was their common coin.

Besides, for every screaming egotist there was a Bradley, and for every publicity-mad military ham there were great men like Terry Allen and General Roosevelt, while in the ranks, billeted with the stinking, cheating, foul-mouthed goldbricks, there were true heroes, kindly men, intelligent men who knew or thought they knew what they were fighting for and took all the rest in their stride.

Twelve years in newsrooms, in the company of reporters, had acquainted her with enough obscene language to insure her the trophy in a cursing contest with even the most foul-mouthed victim of Tourette's syndrome.

But then Rabbit is an extreme middle-American, a voluble and foul-mouthed representative of the silent majority.