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adj. - Using obscene language.

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Usage examples (5)
  • Go -- you're a foul-spoken fellow, and your bones will ache yet for that same speech.
  • In vain the wretched father stormed, and swore, and knocked down more than one foul-spoken fellow that had breathed against dear Grace.
  • Seven are hulking, idle, slouching young men, patched and shabby, too short in the sleeves and too tight in the legs, slimly clothed, foul-spoken, repulsive wretches...
  • He's a liar, a sloven, a slugabed; disobedient, neglectful, ill bred; o'erweening, foul-spoken, a dunderhead; beside which he hath divers other peccadilloes, whereof it...
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