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afoul

/uh-foul/US // əˈfaʊl //UK // (əˈfaʊl) //

违法,违规,违法的,违法行为

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Definitions

  1. 1
    • : in a state of collision or entanglement: a ship with its shrouds afoul.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • It seems that the company had run afoul of the agency’s stringent rules regulating formula intended for infants.

  • Also, be aware that no matter where you host the stream, you are probably running afoul of copyright laws if you play any music.

  • Ant, for its part, seemed to run afoul of Beijing in two ways.

  • If a payment could run afoul of the rules, companies must submit requests for exemption.

  • For decades, it was political death to run afoul of the police and their powerful unions.

  • For all its flagrant indiscretions, though, FIFA has never run afoul of the law.

  • Back in the 1990s, he ran afoul of the American Board of Ophthalmology (ABO), the certifying organization for his specialty.

  • The tax-exempt donations do not appear to run afoul of U.S. law.

  • To destroy the guy in the court of public opinion may run afoul of [legal ethics].

  • It also remains unclear whether traditional practices such as aging tobacco in cedar or other woods might run afoul of the ban.

  • "He's certainly fallen afoul of some mighty tough luck," went on Dick.

  • They were so thick that many appeared to be afoul of one another; now all standing on this tack, now on that.

  • All I hope for now is that we dont run afoul of some half-sunken rock, or it may be a snag!

  • A big flock of them ran afoul of the tower and were dazed by the lights.

  • And even when the feller got afoul of him, the chances are the old land-pirut would steal the brick.