A building befouled with soot. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used with object) : a bird that befouls its own nest. From Dictionary.com.
In its befouled stupor, it incited awe and marvel. From Wordnik.com. [Another Roadside Attraction]
The flowing waters were befouled with the gory spray. From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
Long lines of frozen, grimy cocks befouled by city feet. From Wordnik.com. [England over Seas] Reference
In what way has your unhappy affection befouled the lady?. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose Rent]
The sensation was slipping away like foam on a befouled tide. From Wordnik.com. [The False Mirror]
While I was gone, she befouled my pc and eventually, my mind's eye. From Wordnik.com. [wilberteets Diary Entry] Reference
Sure your lapdog has befouled himself; let me catch hold of the nasty cur. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Roderick Random] Reference
Hence our city streets now being befouled by drunken youth on a Saturday night. From Wordnik.com. [Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...] Reference
That's also tragic for the Chinese people who live with befouled air every day. From Wordnik.com. [Leo W. Gerard: China Trade Promises All Snake Oil -- Fair Trade Crucial] Reference
The water that surrounded her was constantly befouled with her poisons and wastes. From Wordnik.com. [Ship Of Destiny]
A butterfly befit; but where's the wit that mire-befouled to the swamp-demon yields?. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 4, 1891] Reference
Since you started reading this, countless barrels of oil may have befouled the gulf. From Wordnik.com. [You've heard of government 'by the people, for the people'?] Reference
The green light and the glossy patches of sunshine played over their befouled bodies. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Flies]
The birds were glossy black ravens, and vultures with their heads and necks befouled. From Wordnik.com. [The Fires of Heaven]
To a place where the scent of the sea wasn't befouled by the oily stench of the river. From Wordnik.com. [Thief Of Hearts]
The sleepy proprietor brought a kerosene lamp, the chimney befouled with soot and grease. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Noon] Reference
Then they washed their clothes in the lake, stepping gingerly along a shore befouled byhuman waste. From Wordnik.com. [A Family's Terrifying Odyssey] Reference
But then the creature huffed, snorted, backed away, shook its huge head as if it had been befouled. From Wordnik.com. [The Terror]
Television critics are angry that their sets and screens have been so befouled by a crummy program. From Wordnik.com. [Simon Maxwell Apter: Jersey Shore: The Apotheosis of Reality] Reference
Access to the house is half a mile further up through a farm gate, along a track befouled by cattle. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Stories]
"Look, here is where we bathe, and also where we toilet," he says, gesturing at the befouled riverbanks. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Yells, clangor, and a terrible stammer reverberated wall to wall, off the cobbles, up to soot-befouled heaven. From Wordnik.com. [Two in Time]
Four Finger Wu cursed his bodyguard away and pointed a stubby finger at the befouled muddy waters in the harbor. From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
Tibet's clean air, water, and fragile but sustainable ecosystem, is being befouled by mass population transfers. From Wordnik.com. [Lhasa Spring (Tibet)] Reference
This little doggerel was certainly the latter and Geoffrey had no desire to see it befouled by excessive kindness. From Wordnik.com. [A Complaint to His Purse] Reference
River water becomes befouled by the discharge into it of the sewers from settlements and towns located on its banks. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI)] Reference
Our very existence reminds America that, for most of her history, she befouled her ideals like rodents foul their nests. From Wordnik.com. [Leonce Gaiter: Hosannas Spiked With Contempt] Reference
Didst thou imagine, Babhru, thou wert the only one to be dishonoured and befouled, trodden down into the mud and thrown away?. From Wordnik.com. [Bubbles of the Foam] Reference
Instead, you wade into the befouled site that is election central in the aftermath of Kleefeld's wilfull blindness and write. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Beefing Up Florida Efforts, Padding Out Staff] Reference
How Richard II. 's courtiers must have gone slopping and spirting about in the mud that befouled their streets as well as ours!. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
Then Laurica and Natalie held their book club, discussing with which puerile, "inspirational" books they had befouled their minds. From Wordnik.com. [Tallulah Morehead: Survivor Samoa: Here's To the Pirates Who Lunch] Reference
New Jersey is portrayed as more Garbage State than Garden State, with toxic dumps, befouled air, and other environmental atrocities. From Wordnik.com. [The Toxic Avenger takes on New Jersey] Reference
As the prison flooded with storm water befouled by raw sewage the prisoners were herded into cells with mace, locked down, and abandoned. From Wordnik.com. [Hurricane Katrina and the Lost Prisoners of New Orleans] Reference
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