foulness

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Sickened by the follies, the failures, the ferocities, the foulnesses of mankind, for ages upon ages past? 

From All Saints' Day and Other Sermons by Kingsley, Charles

This juice is chiefly recommended in scorbutic disorders, and other foulnesses of the blood: its most sensible effect is to promote the urinary discharge.

From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by Salisbury, William

Unalleviated sorrows, hideous foulnesses, a gross ignorance covering all the most important realities for men—these are the facts with which we have to grapple.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah by Maclaren, Alexander

I had not, but sooner would I have starved than have been poisoned by such foulnesses as they might have set before me.

From The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro by Sabatini, Rafael

He had had fights, it appeared, with the lowest of the low—possibly decent work fellows, who had not understood him; he had come through personal foulnesses not to be mentioned in ladies' company.

From Thirty Years in Australia by Cambridge, Ada