Definition of foul

"foul" in the noun sense

1. foul

an act that violates the rules of a sport

"foul" in the verb sense

1. foul

hit a foul ball

2. pollute, foul, contaminate

make impure

"The industrial wastes polluted the lake"

3. clog, choke off, clog up, back up, congest, choke, foul

become or cause to become obstructed

"The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"

"The water pipe is backed up"

4. foul

commit a foul break the rules

5. foul, befoul, defile, maculate

spot, stain, or pollute

"The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it"

6. foul

make unclean

"foul the water"

7. foul

become soiled and dirty

"foul" in the adjective sense

1. disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky

highly offensive arousing aversion or disgust

"a disgusting smell"

"distasteful language"

"a loathsome disease"

"the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"

"revolting food"

"a wicked stench"

2. fetid, foetid, foul, foul-smelling, funky, noisome, smelly, stinking, ill-scented

offensively malodorous

"a foul odor"

"the kitchen smelled really funky"

3. cheating, dirty, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike

violating accepted standards or rules

"a dirty fighter"

"used foul means to gain power"

"a nasty unsporting serve"

"fined for unsportsmanlike behavior"

4. foul

of a baseball) not hit between the foul lines

5. dirty, foul, marked-up

of a manuscript) defaced with changes

"foul (or dirty) copy"

6. cruddy, filthy, foul, nasty, smutty

characterized by obscenity

"had a filthy mouth"

"foul language"

"smutty jokes"

7. filthy, foul, nasty

disgustingly dirty filled or smeared with offensive matter

"as filthy as a pigsty"

"a foul pond"

"a nasty pigsty of a room"

8. afoul, foul, fouled

especially of a ship's lines etc

"with its sails afoul"

"a foul anchor"

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Quotations for foul

Foul whisperings are abroad. [ William Shakespeare ]

Foul water will quench fire. [ Proverb ]

A fair face and a foul heart. [ Proverb ]

Frost and fraud have foul ends. [ Proverb ]

A fair face and a foul bargain. [ Proverb ]

No love is foul, nor prison fair. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Fair words never break a bone,
Foul words have broke many a one. [ Proverb ]

In the fair tale is foul falsity. [ Proverb ]

In fair weather prepare for foul. [ Proverb ]

Quiet sleep feels no foul weather. [ Proverb ]

A fair face may hide a foul heart. [ Proverb ]

A foul morn may turn to a fair day. [ Proverb ]

As much as York excels foul Sutton. [ Proverb ]

Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition. [ William Shakespeare ]

A holy habit cleanseth not a foul soul. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Purged from drugs of foul intemperance. [ Spenser ]

A proud look makes foul work in a fine face. [ Proverb ]

He that handles pitch shall foul his fingers. [ Proverb ]

Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets;
But gold that's put to use more gold begets. [ William Shakespeare ]

Canst thou not minster to a mind diseased;
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow;
Raze out the written troubles of the brain;
And, with some sweet oblivious antidote,
Cleanse the foul bosom of that perilous stuff,
Which weighs upon the heart? [ William Shakespeare ]

Foul words and foul thoughts make a foul soul.

Point not at other's spots with a foul finger. [ Proverb ]

You are like foul weather, you come unsent for. [ Proverb ]

Take heed of foul dirty ways, and long sickness. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them,
But in the less, foul profanation. [ William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure ]

Don't cast out your foul water till you have clean. [ Proverb ]

Foul deeds will rise,
Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes. [ William Shakespeare ]

A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise. [ William Shakespeare ]

Fine dressing is a foul house swept before the doors. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He loaths the spring-head and drinks the foul stream. [ Proverb ]

Foul with stains of gushing torrents and descending rains. [ Addison ]

Fine dressing is usually a foul house swept before the door. [ Proverb ]

Drive not too many ploughs at once; some will make foul work. [ Proverb ]

Fair or foul the lot apportioned life on earth, we bear alike. [ Robert Browning ]

To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foul. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A debauched son of a noble family, is a foul stream from a clear spring. [ Proverb ]

Let nothing foul to either eye or ear reach those doors within which dwells a boy. [ Juvenal ]

Rich honesty dwells like a miser, in a poor house, as your pearl in your foul oyster. [ William Shakespeare ]

There is no such thing as a white lie; a lie is as black as a coal-pit, and twice as foul. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

The cripple, tardy-gaited night, who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp so tediously away. [ Shakespeare ]

The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture. [ Sterne ]

We wound our modesty, and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them. [ William Shakespeare ]

Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine. [ Spenser ]

The ways to enrich are many, and rfiost of thom foul. Parsimony is one of the best, and yet is not innocent; for it withholdeth men from works of liberality and charity. [ Bacon ]

Had he unjustly fallen, your name had then been stained to latest times with foul reproach; and what more dreadful, more to be abhorred, than to be known with infamy forever? [ Paterson ]

Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts, is passing away without return. [ Carlyle ]

The great blessings of mankind are within us, and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it. [ Seneca ]

Mirthfulness is in the mind, and you cannot get it out. It is the blessed spirit that God has set in the mind to dust it, to enliven its dark places, and to drive asceticism, like a foul fiend, out at the back door. It is just as good, in its place, as conscience or veneration. Praying can no more be made a substitute for smiling than smiling can for praying. [ Beecher ]

foul in Scrabble®

The word foul is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters foul:

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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word foul

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The 46 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In foul

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foul in Words With Friends™

The word foul is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters foul:

FOUL
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All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word foul

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The 50 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In foul

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Words within the letters of foul

2 letter words in foul (1 word)

3 letter words in foul (1 word)

4 letter words in foul (1 word)

foul + 1 blank (4 words)

Words containing the sequence foul

Words that end with foul (4 words)

Word Growth involving foul

Shorter words in foul

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Longer words containing foul

afoul

biofoul biofouled

biofoul biofouler biofoulers

biofoul biofouling biofoulings

biofoul biofouls

defoul defouled

defoul defouling

defoul defouls

fouled biofouled

fouled defouled

fouled unbefouled

fouler biofouler biofoulers

foulest

fouling biofouling biofoulings

fouling defouling

foulmouth foulmouthed

foulness

fouls biofouls

fouls defouls