foulness

Example Sentences

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When he finally arrived, he idled in the driveway for a moment, hoping his foulness might dissipate before he had to encounter his young family.

From Slate • Nov. 26, 2022

The foulness is in the very air they breathe; they might choke if they thought about it.

From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2022

How does she have time to throw such petty foulness into the town square?

From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2021

If a player throws their arms skyward upon contact like they’ve just crawled through 500 yards of sewage-smelling foulness to escape the Shawshank penitentiary, then yes, they’re probably flopping.

From The Guardian • Oct. 30, 2019

He was thinking that if only he could get the Bloodbottler to take one bite of the repulsive vegetable, the sheer foulness of its flavour would send him bellowing out of the cave.

From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl