foulness

Example Sentences

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A romp in the swamp or failure in the foulness of a Rome afternoon?

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2026

In the decades since, though, the main charge against the show hasn’t been foulness so much as incoherence.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2023

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

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