Crossword-Solution: FOUL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Foul | n. | A bird. |
| Foul | superl. | Covered with, or containing, extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious, offensive, or obstructive; filthy; dirty; not clean; polluted; nasty; defiled; as, a foul cloth; foul hands; a foul chimney; foul air; a ship's bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles; a gun becomes foul from repeated firing; a well is foul with polluted water. |
| Foul | superl. | Scurrilous; obscene or profane; abusive; as, foul words; foul language. |
| Foul | superl. | Hateful; detestable; shameful; odious; wretched. |
| Foul | superl. | Loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease. |
| Foul | superl. | Ugly; homely; poor. |
| Foul | superl. | Not favorable; unpropitious; not fair or advantageous; as, a foul wind; a foul road; cloudy or rainy; stormy; not fair; -- said of the weather, sky, etc. |
| Foul | superl. | Not conformed to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.; unfair; dishonest; dishonorable; cheating; as, foul play. |
| Foul | superl. | Having freedom of motion interfered with by collision or entanglement; entangled; -- opposed to clear; as, a rope or cable may get foul while paying it out. |
| Foul | v. t. | To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to soil; as, to foul the face or hands with mire. |
| Foul | v. t. | To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in the process of firing. |
| Foul | v. t. | To cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impered its sailing; as, a bottom fouled with barnacles. |
| Foul | v. t. | To entangle, so as to impede motion; as, to foul a rope or cable in paying it out; to come into collision with; as, one boat fouled the other in a race. |
| Foul | v. i. | To become clogged with burnt powder in the process of firing, as a gun. |
| Foul | v. i. | To become entagled, as ropes; to come into collision with something; as, the two boats fouled. |
| Foul | n. | An entanglement; a collision, as in a boat race. |
| Foul | n. | See Foul ball, under Foul, a. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| FOUL | anagram | FLUO |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with FOUL (5)
Had she haughtily unhanded him (and we should have loved to write it of her), she would have been hurled through the air like the others, and then Hook would probably not have been present at the tying of the children; and had he not been at the tying he would not have discovered Slightly’s secret, and without the secret he could not presently have made his foul attempt on Peter’s life.
With these in troop Came _Astoreth_, whom the _Phoenicians_ call’d _Astarte_, Queen of Heav’n, with crescent Horns; To whose bright Image nightly by the Moon _Sidonian_ Virgins paid their Vows and Songs, In _Sion_ also not unsung, where stood Her Temple on th’ offensive Mountain, built By that uxorious King, whose heart though large, Beguil’d by fair Idolatresses, fell To Idols foul.
From my earliest recollection, I date the entertainment of a deep conviction that slavery would not always be able to hold me within its foul embrace; and in the darkest hours of my career in slavery, this living word of faith and spirit of hope departed not from me, but remained like ministering angels to cheer me through the gloom.
Perturbed in soul, I straight essayed the sacrifice by fire On blazing altars, but the God of Fire Came not in flame, and from the thigh bones dripped And sputtered in the ashes a foul ooze; Gall-bladders cracked and spurted up: the fat Melted and fell and left the thigh bones bare.
She remembered—betwixt a smile and a shudder—the talk of the neighbouring townspeople, who, seeking vainly elsewhere for the child’s paternity, and observing some of her odd attributes, had given out that poor little Pearl was a demon offspring: such as, ever since old Catholic times, had occasionally been seen on earth, through the agency of their mother’s sin, and to promote some foul and wicked purpose.
Quotes with FOUL (3)
You are my whole heart, Scarlet. And this is breaking it.'My heart cracked open and clear dropped out of me. My mouth opened, and I looked round me and stamped my foot. 'Does this look like a good time to tell me that, you damn stupid boy?' I meant to sound mean but my voice wobbled. 'Now?'He gave a little smile. 'My foul-mouthed warrior.
Bullshit takes no genius, even fool senses its' foul.
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul, or rain or shinethe joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself, upon the past has power, but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 120 times in crossword archives (1955–2025).