foulness
Example Sentences
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The foulness is in the very air they breathe; they might choke if they thought about it.
From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2022
My entirely inadequate advice will remain unchanged: Sit in the foulness of the roiling storm and do your work, whatever that may be, and triangulate by the light of whatever star feels eternal to you.
From Slate • Nov. 4, 2022
You don’t need to see inside sealed legal filings to understand that the foulness wafted down from the top.
From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2020
And across China, the smog becomes a dominant topic on social media, with the population tracking the foulness of the air via mobile phone apps.
From BBC • Jan. 14, 2017
I do not think words can do justice to a description of the foulness and filthiness of this bedding.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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