Definitions
especially of a ship's lines etc
Word origin
Inherited from Middle English ffoul, foul, foull, fowel, fowle, fuyle, voul, vul, from Old English fūl (“foul, dirty, unclean, impure, vile, corrupt, rotten, stinking, guilty”), from Proto-West Germanic *fūl, from Proto-Germanic *fūlaz (“foul, rotten”), from Proto-Indo-European *puH- (“foul, rotten”).
Used in a sentence
“This cloth is too foul to use as a duster.”
“His foul hands got dirt all over the kitchen.”
“The air was so foul nobody could breathe.”
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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Bad-smelling”4 letters
02“Against the rules”4 letters
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