Skip to main content

foulness

/foul-nis/US // ˈfaʊl nɪs //UK // (ˈfaʊlnɪs) //

污浊度,污秽,污浊,脏污

Related Words

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the state or quality of being foul: The foulness of the accusation incensed us all.
    • : something that is foul; foul matter; filth.
    • : wickedness.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Your foulness no longer surprises you, but you have realized its power when you encounter clean soldiers and you both recoil.

  • This resembled the old bilge-water of a ship for foulness, but both men and oxen drank of it with avidity.

  • Though dogs I never did care for keeping, because it goes with drinking, foulness, and buffoonery!

  • Howard shut himself up in the cell and bore its darkness and foulness till nature could bear no more.

  • Milton makes his fiends too noble, and misses the foulness, inconstancy, and fury of wickedness.

  • The first day, in spite of the cell's foulness, I laughed secretly at jailers and felt at peace, holding the world at bay.