Foul

This cloth is too foul to use as a duster.

His foul hands got dirt all over the kitchen.

The air was so foul nobody could breathe.

A ship's bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles

A well is foul with polluted water.

It was, however, most interesting work, and the moulders themselves were a decent crowd, never tired of making jokes about themselves such as the hoary one that moulders did not live long, which however ran counter to the other one that no germs could live in a foundry—the atmosphere was too foul.

Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.

The rascal spewed forth a series of foul words.

His foul language causes many people to believe he is uneducated.

He has a foul set of friends.

[…]Hast thou forgot / The foul witch Sycorax, who with age and envy / Was grown into a hoop? Hast thou forgot her?

Who first seduced them to that foul revolt?

Cultural norms and social rules regulate whether someone can be among others or will be isolated, whether the sick will be considered foul or acceptable, and whether they are to be pitied or censured.

This foul food is making me retch.

There was a foul smell coming from the toilet.

Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares.

Some foul weather is brewing.

So foul a sky clears not without a storm.

Foul play is not suspected.

We've got a foul anchor.

A rope could get foul while it is being paid out.

The bus had stopped just foul of the north track at the Erindale Station Road public railway crossing […] With the bus stationary, but still foul of the north track, the train struck one of its front mirrors.

Jones hit foul ball after foul ball.

to foul the face or hands with mire

She's fouled her diaper.

He's fouled his reputation.

The hair has fouled the drain.

As a result of the accident at Southend Airport when a Hermes aircraft overshot the runway and fouled the down Shenfield to Southend Victoria line between Rochford and Prittlewell, the Eastern Region is considering warning arrangements, which have already been provided on some lines running past aerodromes.

Unbelievable. Nearly all shots were fouled by twigs or branches.

Porterfields 5" guns were of little use as their shots were fouled' by the other task group warships down range.

“You were lucky the shot was fouled,” said a dispassionate voice.

The kelp has fouled the prop.

The Indian's heart was sore for his boat; it looked as if nothing could save her. She was drifting more slowly now, her propeller fouled in kelp.

Smith fouled him hard.

The Gunners dominated for long periods but, against the run of play, Denilson fouled Max Gradel and Robert Snodgrass put Leeds ahead from the spot.

Smith fouled within the first minute of the quarter.

State begins fouling and UCLA misses a couple of front-end free throws on one-and-ones.

Jones fouled the ball off the facing of the upper deck.

Jones fouled for strike one.

The drain fouled.

The prop fouled on the kelp.

The full capacity, however, requires a hopper of a size that takes the wagon body up to 11ft 11½in above rail level, which would foul many existing colliery screens.

A second Norwich goal in four minutes arrived after some dire Newcastle defending. Gosling gave the ball away with a sloppy back-pass, allowing Crofts to curl in a cross that the unmarked Morison powered in with a firm, 12-yard header. Gosling's plight worsened when he was soon shown a red card for a foul on Martin.

Even though we were swept, we did outstat the Fast Breakers in one category: they had six technical fouls for the series (three for Bibby, two for Matthews, and one for Shouse), and we totaled nine (three each for Mannion and me, one each for Jose Slaughter, Lewis, and Lamp).

Jones hit a foul up over the screen.