Foul Play

Definition: Foul Play

Foul Play

Noun

1. Unfair or treacherous behavior (especially involving violence).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Language

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Cunning

Chicane, chicanery; sharp practice, knavery, jugglery; concealment; guile, doubling, duplicity; (falsehood); foul play.

Evil

Outrage, wrong, injury, foul play; bad turn, ill turn; disservice, spoliation; grievance, crying evil.

Improbity

Perfidy; perfidiousness; Adjective: treachery, double dealing; unfairness; Adjective: knavery, roguery, rascality, foul play; jobbing, jobbery; graft, bribery; venality, nepotism; corruption, job, shuffle, fishy transaction; barratry, sharp practice, heads I win tails you lose; mouth honor; (flattery).

Wrong

Injustice; tort; unfairness; Adjective: iniquity, foul play.

Crosswords: Foul Play

Foul Play (1930)

A False Friend Foul Play; or (1907)

The Rockford Files: Friends and Foul Play (1996)

Foul Play (1994)

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Books

• Andy: Twenty-Four Years of Foul Play with a Talking Crow (reference)

• Foul Play (reference)

• Foul Play (Harlequin Intrigue) (reference)

• Foul Play at Moler Park (Molehole Mysteries) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Scottsboro: Foul Play In The Bible Belt-City Confidential (reference)

• Foul Play (reference)

• Scooby-Doo - Foul Play in Funland (reference)

• City Confidential - Middleburg: Pistols, Ponies, And Foul Play (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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Human Rights

India

However, the local Superintendent of Police stated that the possibility of foul play could not be ruled out, since blood stains were found on Sheikh's face. (references)

Azerbaijan

Although Hasanov's relatives suspect that police mistreatment played a role in his death, a Ministry of Internal Affairs investigation revealed no foul play. (references)

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Albanian

veprim keqdashës, shkelje e rregullave. (various references)

Arabic 

‏لعب غير قانوني. (various references)

Bulgarian 

престъпление (crime, delict, delinquency, fact, iniquity, misdeed, offence, outrage, transgression, wrongdoing), измама (bunco, bunko, cheat, chouse, cozenage, cross, deceit, deception, delusion, do, double cross, double dealing, doubling, dupery, falsity, fiddle, flam, frame up, fraud, gaff, gag, gouge, guile, gyp, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, have on, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, imposition, imposture, indirection, jiggery pokery, jockeying, jugglery, kid, lemon, overreach, plant, pretence, put on, rig, rip off, roguery, sell, sellout, sham, shuffle, simulacrum, skin game, spoof, swindle, take in, thimblerig, trickery, twist). (various references)

Czech

vražda (assassination, hit, murder). (various references)

Finnish

kieropeli, epärehellinen peli. (various references)

French

jeu irrégulier, jeu déloyal. (various references)

Hebrew 

משחק לא �"ו�'ן, רצח (assassination, homicide, murder). (various references)

Hungarian

gaztett (deed, evildoing, evil-doing, foul deed, misdeed, outrage, villainy, wrongdoing), csalás (a plant, bubble, cheat, cheating, chisel, chouse, collusion, cozenage, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, delusion, fake, fallacy, falsehood, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gouge, gyp, hocus pocus, humbug, imposition, imposture, let in, racket, roguery, scam, sell, snide, swindle, swizzle, trickery). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

卑劣 (base, cowardly, mean). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひれつ (base, cowardly, mean), ふせい�"うい (cheating, malpractice, unfair practices, wrongdoing), は�"そく (balk, default, irregularity, sales promotion, transgression, turning over in bed), � ましうち (sneak attack, surprise attack). (various references)

Manx

far-chloie (foul), drogh-chorrym (bad justice, ill-treatment, oppression). (various references)

Norwegian

lureri (humbug, imposition). (various references)

Pig Latin

oulfay ayplay

Portuguese

jogada suja, crime (crime, delict, guilt, iniquity, misdeed, misdoing, monkey business, offence, offense, perpetration, wrongdoing). (various references)

Romanian

joc incorect, înşelãciune (bluff, cheat, deceit, deception, fake, flim-flam, frame up, fraud, guile, hoax, humbug, illusion, intake). (various references)

Russian 

нечестная игра, предательство (betrayal, foulness, perfidy, sellout, traitorousness, treacherousness, treachery). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

faul. (various references)

Spanish

juego sucio (unfair), cometer un asesinato. (various references)

Swedish

falskt spel, ojust spel (foul). (various references)

Thai

การทำผิ�"กฎหมาย. (various references)

Turkish

faul (foul), suikâst (assassination, complot, conspiracy, conspiratorial, plot), kurallara aykırı oyun, hainlik (betrayal, dastardliness, disloyalty, insidiousness, judas kiss, perfidiousness, perfidy, recreancy, treachery, treason, ungratefulness, villainy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lối chơi xấu h� nh động gian trá, lối chơi trái luật, lối chơi gian lận, h� nh động phản phúc. (various references)

Welsh

camchwarae. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: playful.

-2 letters: foully, lapful.

-3 letters: afoul, alloy, folly, fully, layup, loyal, pally.

-4 letters: ally, fall, flap, flay, flop, foal, foul, full, loaf, loup, ofay, olla, opal, pall, paly, play, ploy, poll, poly, pouf, pula, pull, yaup.

-5 letters: all, alp, fay, flu, fly, fop, fou, foy, lap, lay, lop, oaf, pal, pay, ply, pol, pul, pya.

+5 letters: reproachfully.