Crossword clues for foulest
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Foul \Foul\ (foul), a. [Compar. Fouler (-[~e]r); superl. Foulest.] [OE. foul, ful, AS. f[=u]l; akin to D. vuil, G. faul rotten, OHG. f[=u]l, Icel. f[=u]l foul, fetid; Dan. fuul, Sw. ful foul, Goth. f[=u]ls fetid, Lith. puti to be putrid, L. putere to stink, be putrid, pus pus, Gr. py`on pus, to cause to rot, Skr. p[=u]y to stink. [root]82. Cf. Defile to foul, File to foul, Filth, Pus, Putrid.]
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Covered with, or containing, extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious, offensive, or obstructive; filthy; dirty; not clean; polluted; nasty; defiled; as, a foul cloth; foul hands; a foul chimney; foul air; a ship's bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles; a gun becomes foul from repeated firing; a well is foul with polluted water.
My face is foul with weeping.
--Job. xvi. 16. Scurrilous; obscene or profane; abusive; as, foul words; foul language.
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Hateful; detestable; shameful; odious; wretched. ``The foul with Sycorax.''
--Shak.Who first seduced them to that foul revolt?
--Milton. Loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease.
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Ugly; homely; poor. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares.
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Not favorable; unpropitious; not fair or advantageous; as, a foul wind; a foul road; cloudy or rainy; stormy; not fair; -- said of the weather, sky, etc.
So foul a sky clears not without a storm.
--Shak. Not conformed to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.; unfair; dishonest; dishonorable; cheating; as, foul play.
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Having freedom of motion interfered with by collision or entanglement; entangled; -- opposed to clear; as, a rope or cable may get foul while paying it out.
Foul anchor. (Naut.) See under Anchor.
Foul ball (Baseball), a ball that first strikes the ground outside of the foul ball lines, or rolls outside of certain limits.
Foul ball lines (Baseball), lines from the home base, through the first and third bases, to the boundary of the field.
Foul berth (Naut.), a berth in which a ship is in danger of fouling another vesel.
Foul bill, or Foul bill of health, a certificate, duly authenticated, that a ship has come from a place where a contagious disorder prevails, or that some of the crew are infected.
Foul copy, a rough draught, with erasures and corrections; -- opposed to fair or clean copy. ``Some writers boast of negligence, and others would be ashamed to show their foul copies.''
--Cowper.Foul proof, an uncorrected proof; a proof containing an excessive quantity of errors.
Foul strike (Baseball), a strike by the batsman when any part of his person is outside of the lines of his position.
To fall foul, to fall out; to quarrel. [Obs.] ``If they be any ways offended, they fall foul.''
--Burton.To fall foul of or To run foul of. See under Fall.
To make foul water, to sail in such shallow water that the ship's keel stirs the mud at the bottom.
Wiktionary
a. (en-superlative of: foul)
Usage examples of "foulest".
And the foulest babbler of them all, hot with the exercise of the indecent gestures wherewith he illustrated his filthy tale, had slunk off like a pariah dog.
Toc had watched as Anaster released his mother and her followers, watched as they took men and young boys alike, their knives driving mortal blows, swarming over the bodies in a manner that the foulest beast could not match.
Pure of heart and stalwart with honour, yet besieged within their own house by the foulest of masters.
FRANCIS Their foot press on, However, with a battery in front Which deals the foulest damage done us yet.
I would with joy have changed this early wound For foulest mortal stroke at fall of day.
In a stupor of grief and dread have we not fingered the foulest wounds and left them unhealed by our hands ?
On a weekend flight in the foulest weather in a Heinkel 70 with the C.
Her mind screamed it, but she refused to utter aloud that foulest of profanities.
Change me to the lowest crawling thing, to foulest vermin, only let me live!
He is from Alzellen, and to guard his honour From touch of foulest shame, has slain the Wolfshot, The Imperial Seneschal, who dwelt at Rossberg.
He received the patriots with the foulest abuse, and had them flung downstairs by his secretaries.
Red Skelton never developed fuzz during his show, even in the foulest weather when the aerial bounced and banged against the roof.
Self-love is the foulest of all foul feeders, and will defile that it may devour.
The old twigs and sticks and ancient feathers were covered and well soaked with the foulest of excrements.
The words knotted themselves into sentences, which bound themselves into paragraphs, and I spoke the foulest profanities that had ever assailed my ears.