make foul

Example Sentences

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"It gives us cover if we want to make foul smells of our own from time to time," Edel said.

From Chicago Tribune • Apr. 10, 2011

So I dance in the moonlight, make foul jokes, or labor to shake the foundations of night with my heaped-up howls of rage.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

Pollute, pol-lūt′, v.t. to soil: to defile: to make foul: to taint: to corrupt: to profane: to violate.—adj. defiled.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

Befoul, be-fowl′, v.t. to make foul: to soil.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

As with the barbaric gods, so with the classic deities, who equally supplied material of which to make foul fiends.

From The Grotesque in Church Art by Wildridge, T. Tindall