His display of foulness deserved severe punishment. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Mouths which speak such foulness must be cleansed. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
They were wearied with the foulness of the weather. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Noun : The foulness of the accusation incensed us all. From Dictionary.com.
The sun was not idle, and the steaming thaw washed the mud and foulness from the bergs till they blazed like heaped diamonds in the brightness, or shimmered opalescent-blue. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER 24] Reference
And what modern people call the foulness and freedom of Fielding is generally the severity and moral stringency of Fielding. From Wordnik.com. [All Things Considered] Reference
The foulness is the punishment. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of King Henry the Eighth] Reference
I was suspicious of the foulness of the feed before. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
But we live here on the edge, away from the foulness. From Wordnik.com. [Dump like no other.] Reference
He does not know that I am aware of all his foulness and villainy. From Wordnik.com. [Princess Zara] Reference
Nothing less will serve ifthis foulness is to be crushed once for all. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman In The Great Game]
But steaming reek is around our heads, and trickling foulness about our feet. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 20, 1891] Reference
For there was foulness there, in the air, in the surroundings, in every thing. From Wordnik.com. [Cord and Creese] Reference
Unwashed hands may cause blindness, deafness, foulness of breath, or a polypus. From Wordnik.com. [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference
It was in the dirty foulness of this North Warigesui that O'Iwa had disappeared. From Wordnik.com. [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
Gangrene was in all the wards, the filth and foulness of the atmosphere were fearful. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience] Reference
The atmosphere was oppressive with the concentrated foulness of numberless evil odours. From Wordnik.com. [Amos Huntingdon] Reference
I think it's sort of a symbol of the foulness that is sort of contaminating our entire society. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 22, 2008] Reference
And yet, bad as life then was, it is impossible for us to guess at, or realize, all its foulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Yet it was by his misguided hand that serfage was compacted into its final black mass of foulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862] Reference
He would just start saying the most just completely over the top foulness and you would just be dying. From Wordnik.com. [In Memoriam: Sweet, Sad Rocker Vic Chesnutt] Reference
Diagnosis wrong, treatment wrong, failure certain, and the foulness of the intestinal canal continued!. From Wordnik.com. [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference
In fact, he felt the consciousness of the foulness and corruption of his own nature quite intolerable. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
This resembled the old bilge-water of a ship for foulness, but both men and oxen drank of it with avidity. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Moffat The Missionary Hero of Kuruman] Reference
But we ought not to estimate ease or unrest of mind by our many or few actions, but by their fairness or foulness. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Each time that I let my glance rest upon the foulness of the camp I felt that I must go to her and blind her eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
And then all that was left was the fading foulness on his tongue, and the cramping in his stomach, and the memory. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Hunt]
But now the yellowness was clear and transparent, different altogether from the muddy foulness of the lower reaches. From Wordnik.com. [Gold Out of Celebes] Reference
Englishmen; that as there is no spots or blackness in the sun, so neither is there any rust or foulness on this chain. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference
Without stopping to consider the foulness of the deed I rolled a huge piece to the mouth of the shaft and pushed it in. From Wordnik.com. [The Broncho Rider Boys with Funston at Vera Cruz Or, Upholding the Honor of the Stars and Stripes] Reference
Some five minutes later none of them needed the native keenness of smell to detect the presence of some foulness ahead. From Wordnik.com. [Voodoo Planet] Reference
There was not a foulness or obscenity and indecency that was not openly, shamelessly treated in the bluntest of phraseology. From Wordnik.com. [The Mark of the Beast] Reference
The scene was incongruous, the smart uniforms of the immaculately kept staff officers contrasting strangely with our own unkempt foulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland] Reference
Soiled or dirty clothes should not on any account be allowed to remain in the sleeping apartments, as they are a constant source of foulness to the air. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
Usually they are an uncleanly lot of people, full of good intentions, but their intentions though taken often, seldom operate as an antidote to foulness. From Wordnik.com. [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference
For twenty years it has been demonstrated to my mind that almost every case of chronic constipation, biliousness, intestinal foulness, diarrhea, indigestion, self-poisoning. From Wordnik.com. [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference
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