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
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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
Befoul, be-fowl′, v.t. to make foul: to soil.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Crumbs they leave me that my life may not altogether go from me, but these crumbs they make foul to my taste and my smell.”
From The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Colum, Padraic