Crossword-Solution: FOUL 4 letters, 319 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
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.

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FOUL anagram FLUO

We have 319 clues for the answer “FOUL”

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"No harm, no ___" 1 answer
A line in baseball 1 answer
A violation, in sports. 1 answer
AGAINST the rules of game 1 answer
Ball for the fans 1 answer
Ball hit out of bounds 1 answer
Ballpark line 1 answer
Baseline ump's call 1 answer
Basketball game stopper 1 answer
Basketball ref's call 1 answer
Basketball transgression 1 answer
Batted ball into the dugout, say 1 answer
Cager's misdeed 1 answer
Cager's offense 1 answer
Cause of a free throw, often 1 answer
Clipping on a gridiron, e.g. 1 answer
Clipping or tripping 1 answer
Court error 1 answer
Court offense 1 answer
Entangle, as an anchor. 1 answer
Fair alternative 1 answer
Fair's opposite 1 answer
Free kick cause 1 answer
Free throw cause 1 answer
Hardly ice outside 1 answer
Hoops hack 1 answer
Illegal shift, e.g. 1 answer
It may precede a free throw 1 answer
It's just not fair! 1 answer
Kind of ball or tip 1 answer
Kind of play or ball 1 answer
Kind of tip, in baseball 1 answer
Like terrible weather or odors 1 answer
Low blow, e.g. 1 answer
Morally detestable 1 answer
Not fair, to an ump 1 answer
Offence on football field 1 answer
Offensive to the senses 1 answer
Offensive; make dirty 1 answer
On one side of an outfield pole 1 answer
One might be personal or technical 1 answer
One of six allowed to an N.B.A. player 1 answer
Out of bounds on the field 1 answer
Out of bounds, in baseball 1 answer
Outside the baselines 1 answer
Party ___ (spilling the bongwater, e.g.) 1 answer
Really nasty 1 answer
Reason for a penalty kick 1 answer
Reason for a whistleblower? 1 answer
Sports offense 1 answer
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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.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
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.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
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.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992
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.
The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000
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.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

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.
A.C. Gaughen Scarlet
Bullshit takes no genius, even fool senses its' foul.
Toba Beta My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
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.
Horace
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 120 times in crossword archives (1955–2025).