Foul
A bird.
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.
Scurrilous; obscene or profane; abusive; as, foul words; foul language.
Hateful; detestable; shameful; odious; wretched.
Loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease.
Ugly; homely; poor.
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.
Not conformed to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.; unfair; dishonest; dishonorable; cheating; as, foul play.
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.
To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to soil; as, to foul the face or hands with mire.
To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in the process of firing.
To cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impered its sailing; as, a bottom fouled with barnacles.
To entangle, so as to impede motion; as, to foul a rope or cable in paying it out; to come into collision with; as, one boat fouled the other in a race.
To become clogged with burnt powder in the process of firing, as a gun.
To become entagled, as ropes; to come into collision with something; as, the two boats fouled.
An entanglement; a collision, as in a boat race.
See Foul ball, under Foul, a.
In various games or sports, an act done contrary to the rules; a foul stroke, hit, play, or the like.
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Foul Quotations
So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
William Shakespeare
In fair weather prepare for foul.
Thomas Fuller
I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.
Jim Valvano
One night Roger was in a foul mood and he threw his entire bloody drumset across the stage. The thing only just missed me - I might have been killed.
Freddie Mercury
He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.
John Milton
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
Sallust
All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
Zhuangzi
But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer.
Dan Rather
Foul Translations
foul in Dutch is vuil, smerig
foul in Italian is fangoso
foul in Latin is turpis, foedis-e, immundus, immunda
foul in Portuguese is sujo
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