foulness

foulness
noun
1. disgusting wickedness and immorality
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he understood the foulness of sin

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his display of foulness deserved severe punishment

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mouths which speak such foulness must be cleansed

• Derivationally related forms: ↑foul
• Hypernyms: ↑iniquity, ↑wickedness, ↑darkness, ↑dark
2. a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse
• Syn: ↑filth, ↑filthiness, ↑nastiness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑nasty (for: ↑nastiness), ↑foul, ↑filthy (for: ↑filthiness), ↑filthy (for: ↑filth)
• Hypernyms: ↑unsanitariness
3. (of weather) the badness of the weather
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they were wearied with the foulness of the weather

• Syn: ↑raininess
• Hypernyms: ↑badness, ↑severity, ↑severeness
4. the attribute of having a strong offensive smell
• Derivationally related forms: ↑fetid (for: ↑fetidness), ↑rank (for: ↑rankness), ↑foul, ↑stinky (for: ↑stinkiness), ↑malodorous (for: ↑malodorousness)
• Hypernyms: ↑olfactory property, ↑smell, ↑aroma, ↑odor, ↑odour, ↑scent
• Hyponyms: ↑body odor, ↑body odour, ↑B.O.

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  • Foulness — Foul ness, n. [AS. f[=u]lnes.] The quality or condition of being foul. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • foulness — index defilement, delinquency (misconduct), perversion Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

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  • foulness — noun see foul I …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • Foulness — noun /faʊlˈnɛs/ An island off the east coast of Essex where the Thames estuary joins the North Sea …   Wiktionary

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