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Foul

Definition: Foul

Foul

Adjective

1. 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. Offensively malodorous; "a putrid smell".

3. Violating accepted standards or rules; "a dirty fighter"; "used foul means to gain power"; "a nasty unsporting serve"; "fined for unsportsmanlike behavior".

4. (of a baseball) not hit between the foul lines.

5. (of a manuscript) defaced with changes; "foul (or dirty) copy".

6. (informal) thoroughly unpleasant; "filthy (or foul or nasty or vile) weather we're having".

7. Characterized by obscenity; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes".

8. Disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter; "as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room".

9. Especially of a ship's lines etc; "with its sails afoul"; "a foul anchor".

Noun

1. (sports) an act that violates of the rules of the sport.

Verb

1. Hit a foul ball, in baseball.

2. Make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake".

3. Become or cause to become obstructed; "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up".

4. Commit a foul; break the rules.

5. Spot, stain, or pollute; "The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it".

6. Make foul; "foul the water".

7. Become foul or dirty.

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

Date "foul" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Note: Foul \Foul\ (foul), adjective. [Comparative Fouler (-[~e]r); superlative Foulest.]. (references)


Specialty Definition: Foul

DomainDefinition

Food & Agriculture

Restricted from movement by entanglement. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

A. A condition of the atmosphere of a mine so contaminated by gases as to be unfit for respiration. Impure. b. In a coal seam, a place where the seam was washed out duringdeposition, leaving a barren area. (references)

Slang

Adjective. Source: Foul - to be in the wrong. messed up. Definition: "That smells FOUL". " That girl smells so FOUL that I could smell her from a block away.". Context: Talking about the ugliness of a certain odor. Social Source: Olympian pot heads. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)

Slang in 1811

FOUL. To foul a plate with a man, to take a dinner with him. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Sports & Leisure

An infraction of the rules of the game. An illegal move or play which generally results in awarding one or more free throws to the other team. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Synonyms: Foul

Synonyms: afoul(ip) (adj), cheating(a) (adj), dirty (adj), disgustful (adj), disgusting (adj), distasteful (adj), fetid (adj), filthy (adj), foetid (adj), fouled (adj), foul-smelling (adj), funky (adj), loathly (adj), loathsome (adj), marked-up (adj), nasty (adj), noisome (adj), putrid (adj), repellant (adj), repellent (adj), repelling (adj), revolting (adj), smelly (adj), smutty (adj), stinking (adj), unsporting (adj), unsportsmanlike (adj), vile (adj), wicked (adj), yucky (adj), back up (v), befoul (v), choke (v), choke off (v), clog (v), clog up (v), congest (v), contaminate (v), defile (v), maculate (v), pollute (v). (additional references)
Antonyms: fair (adj), unclog (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Foul

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Improbity

Infamous, arrant, foul, base, vile, ignominious, blackguard.

Impulse

Come into a collision, enter into collision; collide; sideswipe; foul; fall foul of, run foul of; telescope.

Inexpedience

Bad, ill, arrant, as bad as bad can be, dreadful; horrid, horrible; dire; rank, peccant, foul, fulsome; rotten, rotten at the core.

Uncleanness

Nasty, coarse, foul, offensive, abominable, beastly, reeky, reechy; fetid.

Vice

Base, sinister, scurvy, foul, gross, vile, black, grave, facinorous, felonious, nefarious, shameful, scandalous, infamous, villainous, of a deep dye, heinous; flagrant, flagitious; atrocious, incarnate, accursed.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Foul

English words defined with "foul": abuse, afoul, Air trap, Air trunk, airing, Amurcous, asphyxiatebefouled, Beray, Besmoke, Besmut, Bespawl, blackguard, Black-mouthedCalcedon, carrion fungus, charity shot, charity throw, charity toss, cheating, choke, clapperclaw, ClartyDefedation, Defoul, Demephitize, deterge, Deturpation, dirty, Dreggish, Dreggy, dunghillelbowingfaecal, fair, Fair ball, fecal, feculent, filth, filthiness, filthy, flyblown, foul ball, Foul copy, foul out, foul shot, fouled, Fouling, foul-mouthed, foulness, foul-spoken, free kick, free throwindicant, indicationknock onnastiness, nastyone-and-one, out-of-boundspenalty free throw, personal foul, playable, Puddly, putrefied, putrescine, putrid, putrifiedReekysaprobe, Scalping iron, shout, Smoterlich, Sordes, sordid, spatchcock, squalid, steatorrhea, stench bomb, Stench trap, stink bomb, stinkhorn, suffocateTimenoguy, To fall aboard of, To fall foulunsporting, unsportsmanlike, uttererventilation, ventilator, vile, vocaliser, vocalizerWeather breeder. (references)
Specialty definitions using "foul": ammoniacal liquor, AMMONIA-STILL OPERATOR, AsmodeusBardesanists, Black Lookscage clerk, CRINKUMS, cuss a lot barbieDESULFURIZER OPERATOR, Doneski Heinski, dressing-room attendant, dumb furnaceflushing liquor, Foul-weather Jack, Frateretto, free throw line, Friar's Heel, Friday, an Unlucky Day, Friendshipgas desulphurizerHare-lip, Hob NobLetter of Indemnity, Lion's Provider, local vent, locker attendant, LOCKER-ROOM ATTENDANT, locker-room clerkMills-Crowe process, MINSTRELNasty, Niceoffending playerPATROL JUDGE, personal attendant, propeller fan, pump-and-still operatorRailroad, recirculation of air, RyparographerSLUSH BUCKET, suit attendant, SulphurTicksXantippe. (references)
Etymologies containing "foul": turpitude. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Foul" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

German (foul).

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Modern Usage: Foul

DomainUsage

Screenplays

You were over the line that's a foul. (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen)

Follow. But! Follow only if ye be men of valour, for the entrance to this cave is guarded by a creature so foul, so cruel that no man yet has fought with it and lived (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.)

You perfectly foul French upstart (Death on the Nile; writing credit: Agatha Christie; Anthony Shaffer)

I find it difficult to convince myself that God would have introduced such a foul being into creation without endowing her with some virtues, hmmm (Name der Rose, Der; writing credit: Andrew Birkin; Gérard Brach)

That's a technical foul! (Eight Crazy Nights; writing credit: Brooks Arthur; Allen Covert)

Lyrics

It landed foul on the grass ("American Pie"; performing artist: Don McLean)

Landed foul on the grass (American Pie; performing artist: Don McLean)

Shocked by the foul evil deed I had done ("El Paso"; performing artist: Marty Robbins)

Hits with ransom's foul styles get and ones (Feel Me Flow; performing artist: Naughty By Nature)

Movie/TV Titles

Murder Most Foul (1964)

Foul Hunting (1947)

The Foul Ball Player (1940)

Foul Play (1930)

By Fair Means or Foul (1915)

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

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Commercial Usage: Foul

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Caribbean Foul Ball Caper (Miss Baba Series) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

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

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Photo Album: Foul

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Trawl net being towed. Small diameter wire attached to net mensuration sensors and holds sensors at constant tension so as not to foul net. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Stripped and awaiting scrapping, at Alameda, California, 22 March 1931. Note her foul bottom. Propeller guards and propeller shaft supports have been cut away. Credit: NAVY.

Foul lie of an alleged Asheville doctor. Credit: Library of Congress.

Gracie [and] Volunteer foul. Credit: Library of Congress.

"Whoa, come back! Foul ball!". Credit: Library of Congress.

  

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

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Sounds Captioned with "Foul".

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Water foul honking and quacking.Wetlands foul.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Foul

AuthorQuotation

Francis Bacon

The ways to enrich are many, and most of them foul.

Henry Ward Beecher

Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.

John Milton

But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is his own dungeon.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

Shakespeare

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

Theodore Roosevelt

Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

William Shakespeare

Nothing can seem foul to those who win.
For nothing can seem foul to those that win.
Cry ''havoc!'' and let loose the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Foul

AuthorDateQuotation

Communist Manifesto

1848

With very few exceptions, all the so-called Socialist and Communist publications that now (1847) circulate in Germany belong to the domain of this foul and enervating literature. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Foul

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

On one side foul miasma, on the other, ineffable perfume

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

No matter how many or how foul the sins if only you repent of them they will be forgiven you.

Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare

' and let slip the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Foul

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Often this discharge will have a foul smell. (references)

Or a person may detect a foul odor or taste from a substance that is normally pleasant smelling or tasting. (references)

Typical symptoms include foul smelling or frothy green discharge from the vagina, vaginal itching or redness. (references)

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)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

FRIENDSHIP, n. A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul. The sea was calm and the sky was blue; Merrily, merrily sailed we two. (High barometer maketh glad.) On the tipsy ship, with a dreadful shout, The tempest descended and we fell out. (O the walking is nasty bad!) Armit Huff Bettle

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Foul

"Foul" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 69.10% of the time. "Foul" is used about 711 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)69.1%49112,205
Noun (singular)17.56%12528,650
Lexical Verb (infinitive)7.58%5446,184
Lexical Verb (base form)5.48%3955,036
Noun (proper)0.28%2245,945
                    Total100.00%711N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Foul

Expressions using "foul": afoulpostnominal foul fouled American foul brood become foul by fair means of foul by fair means or foul commit a foul fair vs foul fall foul of foul air Foul anchor foul ball Foul ball lines Foul berth Foul bill Foul bill of health Foul copy foul from behind foul gas Foul hawse foul invective foul language foul line foul of foul out foul pay foul play Foul proof foul sewer foul shot Foul smell foul smelling Foul strike foul talk foul thing foul trick foul up foul vs fair foul water foul water sewer foul weather foul wind go foul of have a foul mouth personal foul play foul play smb. foul professional foul run foul of through fail and foul through fair and foul To fall foul To fall foul of To make foul water to run foul of. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "foul": foul-faced, foul-free, foul-hooked, foul-looking, foul-minded, foul-mouthed, foul-mouthed man, foul-play, foul-smellimg, foul-smelling, foul-spoken, foul-tasting, foul-tempered, foul-up, foul-ups, foul-weather, foul-weather gear, foul-worded.

Ending with "foul": anti-foul.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Foul

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
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73

burp foul smelling

4

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26

basketball foul

4

foul smelling urine

26

foul water

4

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26

foul pole

4

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13

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4

foul play movie

10

baseball foul pole

4

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10

foul smelling vagina

3

foul language

9

by foul madonna play play

3

foul weather gear gill

9

foul joke

3

artemis foul

7

foul party

3

ball foul

7

fair fair foul foul macbeth

3

stool foul smelling

7

fart foul wind

3

lord foul bane

7

foul owl

3

sailing foul weather gear

6

foul gear grundens weather

3

blood foul no no

6

distance foul line

3

basketball foul shot

5

foul pump water

3

foul shot

5

foul odor urine

3

foul tip

5

outers foul out

3

foul smell urine

5

foul technical

3

dvd foul play

4

foul personal

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Foul

Language Translations for "foul"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

fëlliq (bedraggle, besmear, blur, bring in the mire, contaminate, daub, defile, dirty, draggle, mire, pollute, soil), faull (balk, baulk, fault, hack), i zënë (busy, caught, closed, engaged, occupied), gjuajtje e gabuar (fault), i ndyrë (abject, atrocious, bloody, contaminated, cotton-picking, crappy, dirty, filthy, hoggish, horrid, lousy, low, low down, mangy, muddy, nasty, piggish, puddly, salacious, shut in, sordid, squalid, stained, stinking, vile, villainous), i padrejtë (inequitable, iniquitous, injurious, inofficious, jug-handled, one sided, partial, unfair, unjust, wrong, wrongful), i pistë (bawdy, dingy, dirty, filthy, frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, grubby, miry, sordid, squalid, waste), bllokohem (clog), i urryer (confounded, cursed, hateful, heinous, horrible, invidious, loathful, loathsome), shndërroj (alter, convert, transform, transmogrify, transmute, turn into), keq (awry, bad, badly, downhill, miserable, nasty, poor, poorly), moleps (contaminate, infect, pollute, taint), ndot (bedaub, besmirch, bespatter, contaminate, defile, dirty, disgust, grime, pollute, repugnance, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, splash), ndyj (bedraggle, besmear, besmirch, contaminate, dirty, plaster, pollute, soil, sully), ngec (break down, conk out, flounder, fob off, foist, hesitate, hitch, jam, Lodge, pack up, plant, run down, seize, throw, thrust), përplasem (bump, bump into, cannon, cannon into, clash, collide, crash, dash, hurtle, jar, pound, run into, splash, wash), parregullsi (disorder, inequality, irregularity), i turpshëm (bashful, censurable, coy, disgraceful, dishonorable, dishonourable, humiliating, ignominious, ill at ease, indecent, infamous, inglorious, lewd, obscene, opprobrious, reserved, scandalous, self conscious, shamefaced, shameful, sheepish, shy, timid, unhallowed, vile, villainous). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏وسخ (bedraggle, befoul, begrime, defiled, dirty, filthy, grime, grimy, grubbiness, litter, mess up, offset, ordure, scum, slattern, smut, soil, soot, sordid, stain, tarnish), ‏ردئ (bad, base, bastard, bum, coarse, common, doggie, evil, fearful, fiendish, ill, inferior, nice, paltry, poor, poorness, putrid, second rate, slim, sour, tacky, tinpot, unhealthy, vicious, villainous, watery), ‏رطب (clammy, dabble, dabby, damp, dampen, dank, humid, humidify, moist, moisten, refresh, soggy, sour, watery, wet), ‏أعاقة, ‏جو سىء, ‏خالف قواعد, ‏خطأ غني, ‏سد (bar, barrage, block, bung, clog, close, close up, congest, dam, dike, dyke, embankment, fill, floodgate, lock, mure, obturate, obturation, occlude, occlusion, pack, plug, seal, shut, stem, stop, stop up, stuff, tamp, wad, weir), ‏تشابك (engage, entanglement, interlock, ravel, snarl, tangle, texture, web), ‏شنيع (atrocious, awful, crying, enormous, ghastly, ghoulish, gruesome, heinous, hideous, monstrous, nefarious, obnoxious, outrageous, ugly), ‏غدر (disloyalty, falsity, perfidy, play false, treachery), ‏فسد (be corrupted, be decayed, be decomposed, be depraved, be evil, be immoral, be marred, be pervert, be putrid, be rotten, be spoiled, be vicious, become corrupted, become decayed, become decomposed, become depraved, become evil, become immoral, become marred, become pervert, become perverted, become putrid, become rotten, become spoiled, become vicious, contaminate, corrupt, decay, decompose, degenerate, deprave, deteriorate, disintegrate, go bad, impair, infect, mangle, mar, mess, mess up, misrule, putrefy, rot, spoil, spoilt), ‏قذر (augean, beastly, contaminated, crummy, defiled, dingy, dirt, dirty, disreputable, dungy, filthy, ghoulish, grimy, grubby, impure, lousy, mean, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, pig, piggish, polluted, rubbishy, sinful, slattern, slatternly, slob, sloppy, slovenly, smutty, soil, sordid, squalid, unclean, uncleanly, untidy, verminous, vile), ‏لطخ السمعة (besmirch, smirch), ‏لوث (bedaub, befoul, besmear, besmirch, blot, contaminate, daub, defile, degrade, dirty, discredit, file, pollute, smear, smirch, soil, spot, stain, sully, taint, tarnish), ‏مخالفة بالرياضة, ‏موحل (clayey, mucky, muddy, murky, puddly, slimy, sloughy, slushy, squashy), ‏ملوث (contaminated, defiled, dirty, filed, impure, infectious, polluted, polluter, spotted, staining), ‏كريه (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, atrocious, bad, brackish, cursed, detestable, disagreeable, distasteful, frightful, hateful, horrible, loathsome, nasty, objectionable, odious, offensive, out of favor, out of favour, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, seamy, sickening, sour, ugly, unattractive, unpleasant, unwholesome, wicked), ‏فاسد (abusive, bad, corrupt, decadent, decayed, decomposed, degenerated, depraved, disintegrated, evil, false, immoral, incorrect, infected, invalid, null, perverse, pervertible, putrid, rogue, rotten, spoiled, unsound, vain, vicious, void, wicked, wrong), ‏تلوث (become defiled, contamination, dirtiness, dirty, impurity, infection, pollution, soil, stain, taint, tarnish). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

непочтен (discreditable, dishonest, dishonorable, dishonourable, disreputable, fishy, oblique, shady, sharp, twisty, underhand), изцапвам (bedraggle, dirty, draggle, mess, slush), изцапвам се (dirty, draggle), противен (abhorrent, abominable, adverse, bastard, contrary, cross, disagreeable, fulsome, ghastly, gross, horrid, loud, mucky, nameless, nasty, noisome, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, offensive, opposing, pestilential, rebarbative, repugnant, repulsive, scarlet, sickening, sickly, sorry, sour, squalid, swinish, ugly, unattractive, unfavorable, unfavourable, ungracious, ungrateful, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, vexatious, vile, villainous), лош (bad, chronic, cobbler, evil, fie-fie, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-conditioned, inferior, loose, lousy, malefic, maleficent, malign, mean, miscreant, miserable, nasty, naughty, poor, rough, rugged, severe, shoddy, sinister, sorry, thumping, ugly, vicious, wicked, wrong), задръстен (chock full, congested), задръствам (block, jam, jam up, obstruct, occlude, silt), задръстване (blockage, congestion, entanglement, jam, obstruction, occlusion, stoppage), запушвам се (choke, clog, stop), заклещен, мръсен (bawdy, currish, dingy, dirt, dirty, filthy, frowzy, greasy, grimy, hoggish, impure, messy, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, piggish, raunchy, ruddy, salacious, sleazy, sordid, squalid, unclean, unwashed, vile), наказателен (penal, retributive, vindicatory, vindictive), наказателен удар (penalty, penalty kick), измърсявам, насрещен (adverse, counter, cross, crosswind, head, oncoming, opposite, unfavorable, unfavourable), стълкновение (collision, conflict, impact, turnup, tussle, war), неприличен (bawdy, immodest, improper, indecent, indelicate, lewd, nasty, naughty, off color, off colour, ribald, salacious, shameful, smutty, spicy, tasteless, unbecoming, uncomely, unmentionable, unseemly), неправилно (awry, incorrectly, mis-, mistakenly, untruly, wrong, wrongly), нечист (dirty, drossy, impure, slatternly, turbid, unclean, uncleanly, unwashed), нечестно (dishonestly, in bad faith), оплитам, омотан, отвратителен (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, atrocious, awful, beastly, bestial, carrion, creepy, cursed, damnable, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, execrable, fulsome, gruesome, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, ill-favored, ill-favoured, infamous, loathsome, lousy, miserable, morbid, nasty, nauseous, noisome, odious, offensive, punk, putrid, rank, repellent, revolting, rotten, septic, shocking, sickening, ugly, unholy, unsavory, unsavoury, unspeakable, villainous, wicked), гноясал (mattery, purulent, ulcerous), фаул (fall), фаулирам (interfere), сблъсквам се (clash, collide, dash, jar, shock), сблъскване (conflict, crash, encounter, impact, jar, jostle, percussion, shock, smash), нарушение (aberration, breach, breaker, breaking, contravention, defection, dereliction, disturbance, entrenchment, fault, infraction, infringement, malpractice, offence, offense, perpetration, transgression, violation). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

肮脏 (Dirtiness, Dirty, grimy), 犯規 , 卑污 (despicable and filthy). (various references)

   

Czech

  

faulovat, ucpat se (stop up), špinavý (black, dirty, filthy, grimy, grotty, grubby, impure, messy, murky, nasty, seamy, slovenly, smutty, sordid, squalid, unclean), hnusný (abhorrent, beastly, detestable, dirty, disgusting, execrable, feculent, horrible, loathsome, revolting, stinking, verminous, vile), kontaminovat (contaminate), mizerný (abysmal, bad, bleeding, bum, cheap, crappy, crummy, dismal, lousy, miserable, painful, paltry, rotten, stingy, tinpot, vile, wretched), ošklivý (bad, dirty, grisly, hideous, horrid, mean, nasty, ugly, unsightly), odporný (abhorrent, abominable, bad, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, hateful, horrible, loathsome, nasty, nauseous, noisome, obnoxious, odious, offensive, queasy, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening, stinking, unsavory, verminous, vile), šeredný (beastly, hideous, nasty, ugly), sprostý (crude, dirty, dunghill, foul-mouthed, gross, indecent, larrikin, mean, nasty, obscene, plebeian, poor, rowdy, scurrilous, squalid, vulgar), zneèistit (adulterate, contaminate, defile, foul up, pollute, sully), zašpinit (daub, Mark, mess, muck, soil, spot), zablokovat (jam up, seal off), zamotat (entangle, snarl, tangle), zaplést se, zaseknout se (jam), zatarasit (bar, block, jam, obstruct), zatuchlý (dank, rancid, stagnant, stale, stuffy), psí (canine, doggish, doggy). (various references)

   

Danish

  

uklar (cloudiness, cloudy, dull, turbid). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

vuil (clippings, cuttings, debris, dirt, dirty, filth, filthy, nasty, parings, refuse, rubbish, rubble, soiled, unclean, waste, windfall), smerig (dirty, filthy, nasty, soiled, unclean). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

sordida (dirty, nasty). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

skitin (dirty, filthy, nasty, soiled, unclean). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

گوریده کردن (Tangle), بهم خوردن (Collide, Collission, Knock), بیقاعده (Atypical, Promiscuous), شنیع (Bawdy, Heinous, Hideous, Nefarious), جرزنی , خلاف (Contrary, Misdeed), طوفانی (Windy), بازی کردن 2 (Move, Perform, Play, Sport, Toy, Twiddle), حیله (Deceit, Deception, Evasion, Gaff, Gimmick, Guile, Humbug, Legerdemain, Monkeyshine, Ruse, Sleight, Train, Trepanation, Trick, Wile), پلید (Frowzy), گیرناپاک , لکه دارکردن (Blame, Blemish, Brand, Denigrate, Smear, Soil, Speck, Stain, Stigmatize, Sully, Taint, Tarnish), چرک شدن (Soil), نادرست (Amiss, Dishonest, Erroneous, False, Imprecise, Impure, Inaccurate, Incorrect, Inexact, Jackleg, Sinister, Spurious, Unfair, Unsound, Untrue, Vicious), ناپاک کردن , ملعون (Cursed, Cussed, Execrable, Unblessed, Unblest), غلط (Amiss, Awry, Erroneous, Error, False, Inaccuracy, Inaccurate, Incorrect, Phony, Unsound). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

sotkeutunut, saastainen (filthy, impure, unclean), säännönvastainen peli isku, rikkomus (misdemeanour, offence), liata (dirty, make a mess of, mess, smear, soil), epäselvä (confused, hazy, illegible, indistinct, not clear, obscure). (various references)

   

French

  

faute. (various references)

   

German

  

faul (addled, bad, decayed, dubious, dud, feeble, fishy, flimsy, idle, idly, indolent, laggard, lame, lazily, lazy, off, phoney, phony, putrid, rotten, rottenly, slothful, sluggard, sluggardly, sluggish, sluggishly, sorry, suspicious, uneasy), faulig (addled, bad, going bad, going off, going rotten, putrefactive, putrid, rotten, stagnating, stale), foul, foulen, sich verwickeln (become entangled, become tangled, get caught, get embroiled, get involved, get mixed up, tangle, tangle up), übelriechend (evil-smelling, fetid, foul smelling, ill smelling, malodorous, malodoruos, malodoruosly, nosy, smelly), ekelhaft (abominable, disgusting, fulsome, loathsome, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, nauseously, odious, putrid, repugnant, revolting, sickening, ugly, vile), gemein (abject, abominable, base, basely, beastly, bitchy, caitiff, cheap, coarse, common, cussedly, dirty, disreputable, horrid, horridly, infamous, invidious, joint, low, lower case, malicious, maliciously, mean, meanly, miscreant, miserable, miserably, nastily, nasty, paltry, rascally, reptilian, rotten, scurillously, scurvily, scurvy, sordid, spiteful, squalid, squalidly, ugly, unkind, unkindly, vicious, vile, vilely, villainous, vulgar, wicked), mies (cockamamie, crook, crummy, lousy, rotten), rammen (drive against, ram, to drive against), regelverstoß (infringement), regelwidrig (abnormal, against the regulations, against the rules, anomalous, anomalously, irregular), schlecht (amiss, bad, bad (worse, badly, chronic, corrupt, decayed, evil, faulty, hard, ill, inferior, lamentable, lamentably, low, maladjusted, miserable, nasty, off, poor, poorly, sick, stale, terribly, uneasy, unhealthy, unkind, unpalatable, unsatisfactory, unsavory, unsavoury, unsuitably, wicked, wrong), schleifen (cut, drag, drill, edge, face, frogmarch, grind, haul, hone, polish, raze, sand, sharpen, slip, slur, sweat, trail, whet), übel (bad, bad (worse, badly, disreputable, evil, evilly, foully, ill, illness, malady, malignancy, nasty, nauseated, nauseous, noxious, objectionable, offensive, offensively, queasy, rank, sick, ugly, ulcer, undesirable, unholy, unsavory, unsavoury, vile, wicked), verboten (banned, forbidden, illegal, illicit, interdicted, prohibited, taboo, tabu), verwickelt (complicated, confused, convoluted, embroils, entangled, entangles, implicates, inextricable, intricate, intricately, involved, involves, knotty, tangly), verunreinigen (contaminate, defile, dirty, infect, pollute, soil, to contaminate, vitiate), verstopfen (block, block up, choke, choke up, clog, congest, constipate, engorge, jam, jam up, occlude, plug, plug up, stop, stop up, to constipate, to engorge, to occlude), verschmutzen (contaminate, defile, dirty, get dirty, make muddy, pollute, soil, to soil), verpesten (befoul, contaminate, poison, pollute), schmutzig (dingily, dingy, dirty, disgusting, filthily, filthy, foully, frowzy, grimy, lewd, messy, mucky, muddy, nastily, smuttily, smutty, soiled, sordid, sordidly, splotchy, squalid, turbid, unclean, unwholesome), verdorben (addled, bad, corrupt, corrupted, corruptly, debauched, depraved, off, perished, polluted, putrid, putridly, rotten, ruined, spoiled, tainted, upset), sich verheddern (get in a muddle, get in a tangle, get tangled up), unklar (blurred, cloudy, doubtful, equivocal, equivocally, foggy, hazy, incoherent, indefinite, indefinitely, indeterminate, indistinct, indistinctly, inexplicit, misty, murky, nebulous, nondistinctive, obscure, obscurely, opaque, sketchy, unclarified, unclear, vague, woolly), ungültig (bad, canceled, disallowed, expired, illegal, inoperative, invalid, nonstandard, null, out of date, spoilt, unlawful, unlawfully, void), unflütig, unerlaublich, stinkig (pissed off, stinking), widerlich (abhorrently, disgusting, distasteful, loathsome, lousy, lurid, nasty, nauseating, nauseatingly, nauseous, noisome, noisomely, objectionable, obnoxious, obnoxiously, offensive, offensively, rancid, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening, stinkingly, ugly, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, vile, yukky), verheddern (snarl, tangle up, to get entangled). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βρόμικος (grimy, grubby), βρωμερόσ (fetid, filthy, nasty, scummy, squalid, stench), μολύνω (contaminate, defile, infect, pollute, taint), φάουλ, εμπλοκή (embroilment, imbroglio, involution, involvement, jam), λερώνω (bedraggle, befoul, begrime, besmear, besmirch, bespatter, blacken, defile, dirty, grime, moil, slur, smear, smirch, soil, splotch, stain, sully), ακάθαρτοσ (filthy, grubby, impure, slaggy, slimy, slob, sloppy, unclean, verminous), ανέντιμος, απαίσιος (appaling, atrocious, awful, despicable, execrable, horrible, nasty), αχρείοσ (depraved, infamous, miscreant, rascal, rascally, scoundrel, scurrile, scurrilous, scurvy, vile, villainous), αηδιακστικός, αηδιαστικός (disgusting, revolting). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מלוכלך (dirty, dungy, grimy, grubby, messy, nasty, smutty, soiled, sordid, unclean), מאוס (abominable, abomination, anathema, atrocious, despicable, disgusting, fulsome, loathsome, mangy, refuse, repulsive, repulsiveness), מ'ו " (disgraceful, fulsome, improper, indecent, obnoxious, obscene, odious, opprobrious, shameful), ללכלך (befoul, daub, dirty, grime, muck, smirch, smudge, soil, stain, sully), לפ'ל (adulterate, denature, pollute, spoil), לט ף (mess, muck, pollute, smudge, soil, sully), עכור (bemired, gloomy, muddy, slushy, turbid), "לוח (befouling, dirty, filthy, muddy, polluted, pollution, turbid), תעב (abhorred, abominable, detestable, gruesome, hateful, loathsome, obnoxious, odious, vile). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szabálysértés (misdemeanor, misdemeanour). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

kecurangan (corruption, deception, dishonesty, fraut), buruk (bad, corrupt, decayed, dissonant, nasty, old, putrid, ugly, worn out), bau (aroma, odour, scent, smell, unpleasant). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sporco (dingy, dirty, filthy, grubby, mucky, nasty, scruff, smutty, soiled). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ファイル分離キャラクタ (bassoon, facade, facility, FACOM, facsimile, fact, faction, factor, factoring, factory, factory automation, factory team, fagot-stitch, fagotting stitch, fascism, fascist, fax, Feynman, file separator, finder, fine, fine ceramics, fine chemical, fine food, fine play, foul line, foul tip, foundation, fuzzy, fuzzy computer, fuzzy logic). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ファウル . (various references)

   

Korean 

  

"러운 (Dirty, grubby, messy, scummy). (various references)

   

Manx

  

toghtit (choked, overwrought, strangled, strangulated, tense, tense of voice), toghtey (choke, choking, clog, clogging, dyspnoea, garrotte, jugulate; strangling, strangle, strangulation, throttle, throttling), sallagh (dingy, filthy, grubby, impure, nasty, piggish, squalid), neughlen (impure, lewd, muddy, unclean, vulgar), loau (bad, bad as meat, carious, corrupt, decayed, gangrenous, putrefactive, putrescent, putrid, rotted, rotten, stagnate, stale), jannoo tramman, jannoo far chloie, feodagh (disgusting), far-chloie (foul play), builley aggairagh, breinnaghey (become smelly, befoul, go off, go off as milk, putrefy, taint), breinn (blue, blue as film, foetid, loathsome, malodorus, nasty, offensive, pestilential, putrid, rancid, rotten, smelly), branglish aggairagh, branglish, awane (immodest, obscene, unchaste). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

vulgær, uærlig (dishonest, nasty), stygg (homely, nasty, ugly), skitten (dirty, filthy, grimy, grubby, nasty, soiled, unclean). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oulfay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

fedorento (malodorant, malodorous, offensive, putrescent, stinking), fazer foul, falta (absence, default, deficiency, fail, failing, forfeit, guilt, lack, lacuna, miss, mistake, need, non-attendance, omission, paucity, penurity, penury, privation, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, slip, want, wantage), elamear, ilícito (bootleg, contraband, surreptitious, unauthorized, unlawful), golpe proibido, golpe desleal, abominável (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, alien, atrocious, awful, dismal, dreary, gruesome, hideous, horrible, nasty, nefarious, odious), enrascado, infecto (filthy, fumy, putrid, stinking), desonrar (attaint, defile, disgrace, dishallow, dishonor, dishonour, profane, smirch), desagradável (bad, beastly, bleak, brackish, crabbed, desagreeable, disagreeable, disgusting, dismal, displeasing, distasteful, dreadful, dreary, fearful, forbidding, frightful, ghastly, grisly, horrible, invidious, nasty, objectionable, obnoxious, offensive, repellent, seamy, ugly, uncomfortable, uncongenial, undesirable, ungrateful, unlovely, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, unthankful, untoward, unwelcome, unwished), criminoso (criminal, felon, felonious, flagitious, gangster, guilty, maleficent, mobster, murderous, offender, outlaw, perpetrator, sinful), corromper (adulterate, attaint, bribe, canker, contaminate, defile, mislead, nobble, palm, pervert, poison, spoil, subvert, taint, vitiate), conspurcar (defile, dishallow, pollute, profane, sully), condenável (blameworthy, damnable, objectionable, reprehensible), choque (affection, bump, chunking, clash, collision, concussion, conflict, crash, dash, impingement, knock, shake, shock, smash, smashup, strain), entupir (choke, clog, obstruct, stuff), perfidamente (falsely), violação (abuse, breach, defilement, offence, offense, rape, ravishment, transgression, trespass), turvo (blear, cloudy, dim, dimmish, dreggy, feculent, milky, muddy, roily, thick, troubled), traiçoeiramente (treacherously), sujo (boarish, cloudy, crummy, dingy, dirty, ebon, feculent, filthy, frowzy, greasy, grimy, grouty, grubby, lousy, messy, miry, mucky, nasty, obscene, piggish, scurrilous, sloven, slovenly, smudgy, smutty, soiled, splotchy, squalid, stained, swinish, unclean, untidy, unwashed), sujar (bedabble, befoul, begrime, besmear, besmirch, blemish, blotch, daub, defile, dirt, dirty, dishallow, drabble, draggle, grime, make it wrong, mess, muck, muddy, slubber, smirch, smoke, smudge, soil, stain, sully), sórdido (mean, mucky, nasty, piggish, sordid, squalid, swinish), putrefato (tainted), ilicitamente (unlawfully), podre (addle, addled, bad, punk, stinking, tainted, unsound), imundo (filthy, mucky, piggish, squalid, swinish, unclean), obstruir (beset, block, blockade, clog, dam, estop, filibuster, jam, let, obstruct, occlude, shut), nocivo (adverse, bad, hurtful, injurious, nocuous, noisome, noxious, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, prejudicial, wrongful), nauseabundo (nauseous, putrid, queasy, stinking, unpalatable), manchar (befoul, besmirch, blemish, blight, blotch, blur, dirty, discolor, discolour, fleck, fox, maculate, pollute, smirch, smoke, smudge, soil, speckle, spot, sully, taint), jogo desleal, infração (breach, contravention, transgression, violation, wrongdoing), violar regras, poluir (contaminate, defile, maculate, pollute, profane, soil, vitiate). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

face sã nu mai funcţioneze, deveni necinstit, murdãrit (fly-blown, spotted), murdãri (bedraggle, begrime, besmear, besmirch, blot, contaminate, defile, litter, mess, muck, muddy, pollute, puddle, slop, smear, smirch, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, splash, splatter, spot, stain, sully, tarnish), molipsitor (cankerous, catching, contagious, infectious, infective, taking), mirositor (fragrant, smelling, stinking), mânjit (dirty, smutty), mânji (bedaub, beddable, besmear, besmirch, blur, daub, defile, grime, mess, smirch, soil, stain, sully), loviturã neregulamentarã, infect (rotten, stinking, vile, wretched), incorect (bad, deceitful, dishonest, false, improper, inaccurate, incorrect, inexact, obliquitous, wrong, wrongful), groaznic (appalling, awful, awfully, baleful, desperate, dire, dreadful, frightful, ghastly, grim, groovy, gruesome, horrendous, horrent, horrible, horribly, horrid, howling, lousy, miserable, miserably, monstrous, sad, scary, shocking, terrible, terribly, vile), împiedicat (stuttering), dezonora (attaint, blot, bring reproach upon, degrade, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, pollute, ruin, spot), neconform regulilor jocului, detestabil (accursed, detestable, execrable, hateful, loathsome, odious, odiously), contrar (adverse, against, antipathic, bad, contrarily, contrary, converse, counter, opponent, opposed, opposite, retrograde, reverse), contagios (catching, contagious, infectious, infective, pestilent, pestilential), ciocnire (affair, bump, clash, click, collision, concussion, conflict, contradiction, dash, encounter, hit, impact, jar, jostle, passage, shock), bara (bar, close, stop, wire), angajat (employed, employee, engaged, hireling, in place, super), ancrasa (clog, dirty, soil), acţiune incorectã, încurcat (daedal, difficult, embarrassed, intricate, involved, matted, perplexed, perplexedly, puzzling, tangled, tortuous, winding), încurca (complicate, confound, confuse, cumber, discomfit, embrangle, embroil, entangle, floor, gravel, hamper, hash, hinder, intertangle, involve, jumble, maze, medley, muddle, nonplus, perplex, pile up, pose, put out, puzzle, restrain, shuffle, sputter, stump, tangle, trouble), încãrcat (alive, busy, close, heavy, inflated, laden, loaded, luscious, painty, strained), din faţã (fore, forward, front, full face), rãu (Amiss, atrocious, awkward, awry, bad, bad for, bad-hearted, badly, baleful, black, bum, corrupt, depraved, evil, flagitious, haggish, harm, ill, immoral, lousy, malefic, maleficent, malicious, malign, mischief, mischievous, miserable, naughty, perverse, rough, scoundrel, sickness, thin, unspeakable, useless, venomous, vicious, vile, wicked, wretched, wrong), urât (abominable, bad, badly, boredom, dirty, ennui, filthy, haggish, hateful, hideous, ill-featured, little, low, megrim, naughty, opprobrious, sour, squalid, tedium, ugly, unbecoming, unfairly, unsightly, vicious, villainous, wicked), trivial (coarse, common, licentious, low-lived, peddling, trite, vulgar, vulgarly), trãdãtor (perfidious, Ratter, recreant, renegade, traitor, traitorous, treacherous, turncoat), ticãlos (a bad egg, base, cad, canting, cur, dark, dirty, felon, heel, hound, impious, kite, knave, knavish, knavishly, low-minded, mean, meanly, miscreant, paltry, perverse, picaroon, rapscallion, rascal, rascally, recreant, reprobate, ruffian, scab, scabby, scamp, scoundrel, scurvy, serpentine, shabby, skunk, sneak, sneaking, vile, villain, villainous, wretch, wretched), tãia (amputate, ax, axe, butcher, cancel, carve, carve out, castrate, chop, clap, cleave, clip, crop, cross, Curdle, cut, cut on the bias, Dent, dissect, engrave, excise, exscind, fell, flench, grave, hew, incise, intercept, kill, measure off, notch, notch off, pare, plough, prune, quarter, resect, rip, Rive, separate, sever, shear, shorten, shut the works down, slaughter, slay, slice, snick, split, Square, stop, strike out, switch off), stricat (addle, bad, broken, broken down, carrion, close, corrupt, corrupted, dead, decayed, defaced, depraved, deteriorated, dilapidated, disabled, diseased, dissolute, fusty, graceless, immoral, injured, loose, meretricious, niffy, out of order, perverse, polluted, rakehelly, rotten, spoilt, stuffy, tainted, vicious, vitiated), spurcat (base, dirty, filthy, foul-mouthed, soiled, vile), se murdãri (dirty), se ciocni (bump, collide, conflict, dash against, encounter, fall foul of, go foul of, hit, impinge, jar, knock, meet, run foul of, strike, telescope), se ancrasa, scârnav (disgusting, filthy, grubby, smutty, vile), murdar (base, basely, bawdy, dingy, dirty, dungy, filthy, foully, frowzy, greasy, grimy, grubby, impure, mangy, messy, nasty, piggish, piggy, poky, scurrilous, seedy, shabby, slimy, slovenly, smeary, smutty, soppy, sordid, sordidly, squalid, Tarry, thick, unclean, untidy), respingãtor (abhorrent, awful, awfully, disagreeable, dreadful, dreadfully, forbidding, fulsome, hideous, infamous, obnoxious, obscene, odious, odiousness, offensive, pestilent, rebarbative, repellent, repulsive, repulsively, scurvy, unprepossessing, verminous), necinstit (crooked, dirty, dishonest, dishonestly, disingenuous, faithless, fraudulent, knavish, knavishly, low down, meretricious, perfidious, raw, rotten, unfair, unfaithful, unlawful), purulent (festering, purulent, running, suppurative), polua (defile, pollute), pãta (attaint, blemish, cloud, maculate, Mark, slop, smear, smirch, smut, soil, speckle, splash, splatter, spoil, spot, stain, sully), pângãri (besmear, defile, desecrate, dishonor, dishonour, stain, violate), otrãvit (embittering, empoisoned, harmful, perverting, poisoned), odios (detestable, hateful, odious, odiously, repulsive), obscen (bawdy, dirty, filthy, foul-mouthed, indelicate, lewd, lickerish, nasty, obscene, obscenely, ribald, scurrilous, smutty), nemernic (base, cad, caitiff, felon, rascal, rascally, reprobate, scamp, scoundrel, sneak, sneaking, son of a gun, villain, wretch, wretched), negru (black, blackened, Brown, coon, dark, dirtiness, dirty, ghost writer, grimy, hidden, jim crow, negro, penny-a-liner, sable, sun-burnt, swarthy, tawny, wicked). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

скверный (nefarious, noisome, ropey), что-л. дурное, грязный;бесчестный, грязный (crummy, dirty, dungy, filthy, frowsy, frowzy, grimy, lousy, mangy, messy, miry, mourning, mucky, muddy, puddly, scruffy, slimy, sloppy, sludgy, slushy, smeary, smudgy, sordid, squalid, unclean, vicious), вонючий (fetid, foetid, malodorant, malodorous, noisome, putrid, rank, stinking, stinky), отвратительный (abhorrent, abominable, crummy, cursed, damned, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, evolving, execrable, filthy, fulsome, ghoulish, gruesome, hateful, heinous, hideous, loathsome, morbid, nameless, nasty, nauseous, obnoxious, poisonous, rank, repugnant, revolting, sickening, stinking, unsavory, unsavoury, vile), нечестный (cammed, crooked, dirty, dishemest, dishonest, dodgy, mean, rascally, snide, unfair), нечестно, нарушение правил, запутаться, запутать (entrap), испортиться (get out of order, go awry, go bad), испортить (injure, spoil). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

salach (dirty, filthy, nasty, soiled, unclean), doit. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zapušten (negligent, rusty, unkempt), zamrsiti (foul up, mesh, mess up, muddle, ravel, tangle), uprljati (become dirty, begrime, defile, dirty, draggle, smirch, taint), smrdljiv (feculent, fetid, malodorant, malodorous, odorous, olid, smelling, smelly, stinking), prljavo (dirtily), prljav (dingy, dirty, drossy, feculent, filthy, grimy, impure, muck, mucky, scurvy, sordid, squalid, unclean), prekršiti (break, contravene, infringe, offend, transgress, violate), prekršaj (breach, delict, infraction, infringement, malfeasance, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, offense, violation), pogrdan (abusive, insulting, invective, libellous, libelous, opprobrious, pejorative), nepošteno (sinuous, underhand), gadan (beastly, disgustful, disgusting, haggish, ill-favored, ill-favoured, loathful, loathsome, nasty, nauseous, noisome, odious, seamy, sick, ugly, vile). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

feo (bad-looking, dirty, homely, ill-favored, ill-favoured, miscreated, nasty, tacky, ugly, ungraceful, unsightly), fétido (fetid, foetid, noisome, stank, stinking), faltado (defective, indirect), falta (absence, bankruptcy, dearth, default, defect, deficiency, deficit, error, fail, failing, fault, infringement, is lacking, lack, lapse, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, mistake, need, out of, paucity, shortage, shortcoming, shortness, slip, want), sucio (crummy, dingy, dirty, feculent, filthy, foully, grubby, impure, low, lower, nasty, soiled, unclean, unfairly, unwashed), atascar (bog down, bung up, choke, clog, congest, engorge, jam, obstruct, occlude, plug, stop up), chocar contra (bump, knock, knock against, knock into, prang, ram), cometer (accomplish, achieve, act, carry out, commit, do, go at, keep, make, observe, perform), cometer una falta, encepado, enredarse en, ensuciar (bedraggle, befoul, besmirch, defile, dirty, litter, mess, mess up, pollute, soil), asqueroso (augean, beastly, crappy, disgusting, distasteful, gross, loathsome, lousy, mucky, nasty, noisome, putrid, rancid, revolting, sordid, squalid, ugly, unpleasant), puerco (cedar, filthy, hog, mucky, nasty, pig, piggish, slatternly), vil (abject, contemptible, cur, despicable, lousy, low, low down, lower, mean, mean-spirited, miserable, nefarious, rotten, scurvily, scurvy, sordid, squalid, vile), horrible (abhorrent, abominable, agonizing, alien, appalling, awful, bleak, dire, direful, dirty, dismal, dread, dreary, evil, formidably, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, hellish, hideous, horrible, horrid, lousy, lurid, moldy, mouldy, nasty, shocking, stinking, terrible, terror, vile, wicked), indecente (dirty, fie-fie, indecent, miserable, nasty, obscene, suggestive, unprintable), infecto (infected, tainted), insoportable (beyond all bearing, insufferable, insupportable, unendurable), manchar (bedaub, befoul, besmirch, blemish, blot, blotch, blur, dapple, daub, defile, dirty, maculate, Mark, smear, smudge, soil, spot, stain, sully, taint, tarnish), obstruir (bar, barricade, beset, block, block up, choke, clog, hinder, impede, interfere, jam, lumber, obstruct, occlude, shut up, tie up), viciado (bad, contaminated, fuggy, soupy, stale, tainted, thick). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

smutsig (crummy, dingy, dirty, filthy, grimy, grubby, mucky, nasty, soiled, sordid, squalid, unclean), ojust (dirty, unfair, unjust, unjustly). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ทำให้สกปรก (dirty, sully), ซึ่งไม่บริสุทธิ์, ซึ่งไม่บริสุทธิ์ใจ, ยุ่งเหยิง (higgledy-piggledy, jumble, muddy, ravel, ruffled, sloppy, tangle), อุ"ตัน, การปะทะ, ทำผิ"กติกา (foul out), เน่าเปื่อย (putrefy, rotten), สิ่งสกปรก (dirt, griminess, grubbiness, muck), สกปรก (cacky, dirty, grubby, grungy, mucky, sleazy, sordid, squalid), น่ารังเกียจ (clingin, hateable, icky-poo, loathsome, lousy, noisome, obnoxious, obscene, odious, putrid), ไม่สุ าพ, เลวทราม (shoddy, sordid, squalid), การทำผิ"กฎ. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

fena (angrily, bad, badly, evil, ill, malicious, miserable, nasty, poor, poorly, sinful, sinister, unholy, vicious, wicked), faullü olarak, faul yapmak, faul (foul play), bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck), çarpışma (action, bump, clash, collision, combat, conflict, encounter, engagement, impact, rencontre, scrimmage, scrum, scrummage, set to, skirmish, smash, smash up), dolaştırmak (circulate, dash, embrangle, entangle, entwine, foul up, hand on, intwine, kink, knot, Ravel, take for a walk, tangle, trot round, walk, walk about, walk around, walk out), hilebaz (blackleg, cardsharp, cardsharper, cheat, cheater, deceitful, fraud, fraudulent, gyp, juggler, rook, serpentine, sharper, shuffling, trickster), bozuk (addle, bad, broken, broken down, bum, damaged, dead, deranged, dirty, disappointed, dished, disordered, distorted, doric, embroiled, faulty, flyblown, gone, hard set, haywire, heavy, hipshot, imperfect, in bad order, irregular, kaput, knackered, off, on the fritz, out of action, out of commission, out of gear, out of order, perverse, putrefacient, putrefactive, putrid, rancid, rotten, stale, touched, unsound, upset, vicious, wrong), hilekâr (cheat, cheater, con, con man, crooked, cross, deceitful, deceiver, double-tongued, faithless, fraud, fraudulent, funk, gadgety, guileful, hard boiled, knavish, trickster, twister), bindirmek (bump, clash, crash into, embark, Mount, overlay, pile up), ağır (arduous, back breaking, badly, bovine, burdensome, contemptuous, cumbersome, cumbrous, deep, deliberate, dignified, drudging, dull, fabian, grave, grievous, hard, harsh, heavily, heavy, hefty, indigestible, languid, lazy, lumbering, massive, measured, muzzy, not fast, onerous, oppressive, plodding, ponderous, repressive, rich, scorching, scornful, serious, serious minded, seriously, severe, severely, sharp, slack, slashing, slow, slow moving, slowly, sluggish, smashing, stodgy, strenuous, strong, swingeing, toilful, toilsome, unwholesome, unwieldy, weighty), açık saçık (bawdy, blue, dirty, disorderly, feelthy, filthy, girlie, hard core, immodest, immodestly dressed, improper, indecent, lewd, obscene, off color, off colour, pornographic, racy, raw, ripe, risky, risque, rough, salacious, salty, scabrous, shocking, smutty, spicy), çirkin biçimde, çirkin (beastly, eldritch, flagrant, god-awful, heinous, hideous, homely, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, inelegant, misshapen, nasty, nefarious, obnoxious, plain, seamy, shapeless, ugly, unattractive, uncomely, uncouth, unhandsome, unlovely, unpleasant, unsightly), çarpmak (bang, bang into, barge, bash, bump, bump into, cannon, clap, clash, collide, crash, crash into, dash, greet, hit, hurtle, impinge, kayo, knock, knock out, knock over, lash, mulct, multiply, plant, plonk, plonk down, plunk, pound, pulsate, pulse, ram, reach, run, run against, slam, slap, smash, smite upon, spring, strike, strike against, throb), dolaşık (circuitous, entangled, entwined, kinky, mazy, tortuous), kirletmek (bedaub, befoul, begrime, bemire, besmear, besmirch, blot, contaminate, daub, defile, dirty, foul up, grime, make dirty, mess, pollute, rape, slur, smear, smirch, smutch, soil, spatter, stain, sully, tarnish, vitiate), tıkanmış (choked, engorged, jammed, jammed with, stuffed, stuffy), tıkamak (block, block up, bung, bung up, choke, choke up, clog, congest, engorge, foul up, glut, hold, jam, obliterate, obstruct, obturate, occlude, plug, plug up, seal off, Spike, spile, stop, stop up, stopple, stuff, tampon, wad), pislenmek (become dirty, dirty, smear), pis (augean, black, dingy, dirty, dungy, effing, filthy, frowzy, goatish, grimy, grubby, impure, mangy, messy, miasmal, miasmatic, miry, mucky, nasty, obnoxious, obscene, offensive, scruffy, scummy, slimy, sordid, squalid, unclean, uncleanly), kurallara aykırı olarak (in contravention of the rules), kurallara aykırı hareket, hain (betrayer, cattish, catty, deceitful, dingo, disloyal, faithless, false, false-hearted, insidious, Judas, malicious, nefarious, perfidious, rat, Ratter, renegade, scoundrel, scoundrelly, serpent, snaky, traitor, traitorous, treacherous, ungrateful, villain, viperish, viperous, wicked), kokuşmuş (bad, fetid, fusty, hard set, putrid, rancid, rank, rotten), zor durum (cleft stick, crunch, den, grievousness, hole, impasse, lurch, nice pickle, pickle, push, sad pickle, scrape, sorry pickle, spot, tight corner, toughie), kirlenmek (be polluted, be soiled, become dirty, dirty, draggle, smudge, soil, stain), karıştırmak (add, admix, amalgamate, blend, churn, commingle, commix, complicate, concoct, confound, confuse, darken, diffuse, disarrange, disarray, discompose, disconcert, disorder, disorganize, disturb, embroil, entangle, ferret about, foul up, hash, implicate, interfuse, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix, involve, inweave, jumble, jumble together, jumble up, knot, litter, make hay of smth., meld, mess, mess smth. about, mess up, mingle, mistake, mix, mix up, monkey around with, monkey with, muddle, muss, pick, poke, poke up, Ravel, ruffle, scramble, scramble together, scramble up, shuffle, snarl, stir, stir up, tamper with, tangle, tousle, trim, tumble, unsettle, weave), karışmış (afoul, confused, entangled, in disorder, involved, inwrought, mingled, mixed, puzzled), kabaca (clownishly, coarsely, disobligingly, impolitely, in bold outline, loose, rough, roughly, rudely, shortly, sketchy, vulgarly), kaba (abrupt, barbarous, base, bearish, boorish, brusque, brutal, brutish, churlish, clodhopping, coarse, coarse grained, common, crass, crude, discourteous, disobliging, disrespectful, doric, graceless, gross, gruff, gutter, hard-hitting, harsh, heavy, hobnailed, hoggish, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelegant, loud, loutish, offhand, offhanded, ornery, puffy, rank, rough, rough-hewn, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, short-spoken, splay, swinish, tactless, unceremonious, unchivalrous, uncivil, uncomplaisant, uncomplimentary, uncouth, underbred, unfinished, ungainly, ungalant, ungentle, ungentlemanlike, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, ungracious, unmannerly, unparliamentary, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar), iğrenç (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, cloying, crying, damn, damned, detestable, dirty, disgusting, distasteful, dread, dreadfull, execrable, filthy, frightful, ghoulish, god-awful, grievous, hatable, hateable, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, infernal, loathsome, lousy, mangy, mawkish, nasty, nauseous, noisome, obnoxious, odious, offensive, putrid, rancid, rank, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, scummy, shocking, sick, sickening, sickly, slimy, squirmy, stinking, ugly, vile, villainous, yuck), kurallara aykırı (against the rules). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

стикатися (clash, collide, contact, encounter, impinge, impinge on, jostle, meet, osculate, telescope, touch), смердючий (fetid, foetid, goatish, malodorous, nauseous, noisome, nosey, nosy, odoriferous, olid, pestilential, putrescent, putrid, smelly, stinking), нечесно (meanly, rascally), непристойний (bad, bawdy, beastly, blue, coarse, dirty, fie-fie, graceless, greasy, immodest, improper, impure, indecent, lewd, nasty, nubbly, obscene, off color, off colour, paw-paw, ribald, salacious, salt, scabrous, scurrilous, shameless, smutty, sultry, unbecoming, unchaste), зіткнення (collision, osculation, skirmish), засмічувати (choke, clog, lumber, silt), бруднити (befoul, begrime, bespatter, blur, daub, dirty, discolor, discolour, mess up, muck, muss, smear, smudge, soil, sully), брудний (bawdy, beastly, black, chatty, dirty, dungy, filthy, greasy, grimy, hoggish, lousy, mangy, messy, miry, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, puddly, sludgy, smeary, smudgy, smutty, sordid, sozzly, unclean), бруд (dirt, feculence, filth, foulness, grime, mullock, squalor), погань (draff, muck, rotter, tripe). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

t"i (deplorable, doggerel, illy, poor, poorly, punk, rotten, third-rate, threepenny, trashy, wretched), gian lận va phải, gian trá, hôi hám (fetid, foetid), hôi thối bẩn thỉu, sự chạm (contact, incision), cú ăn gian, sự va sự vướng mắc v o nhau, vật hôi thối điều xấu sự đụng, tục tĩu (coarse, gross, grossly, naughty, obscene, ribald, salacious, scurrilous), tởm (chatty), thô tục (commonly, filthy, grossly), trái luật (illegal), va chạm với, vật bẩn, sự rối cú đấm trái luật. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

budro (dirty, soil), budr (dirty, filthy, vile), brwnt (dirty, filthy, harsh, nasty, soiled, unclean), amhu+r (impure), aflan (polluted, unclean). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Foul

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

foedam, foede, foedis-e, foedum, foedus, immunda, immundus, inmunda, inmundae, inmundam, inmundas, inmunde, inmundi, inmundis, inmundo, inmundorum, inmundos, inmundum, inmundus, polluam, polluamini, polluamus, polluant, polluantur, polluat, polluatis, polluatur, polluent, polluentur, polluerat, polluere, polluerent, pollueretur, polluerint, polluerit, pollueritis, polluerunt, pollues, polluet, polluetur, pollui, polluimini, polluimus, polluisti, polluistis, polluit, polluitur, polluta, pollutae, polluti, pollutio, pollutione, pollutum, pollutus, pollutusque, pura, pure, purum, sordida, sordidam, sordidis, sordido, sordidos, sordidum, turpis. (various references)

Old English450-1100

ful. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Foul

LanguageDateSourceMark Chapter 9, Verse 25
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintIdwn de o ihsouV oti episuntrecei ocloV epetimhsen tw pneumati tw akaqartw legwn autw to pneuma to alalon kai kwfon egw soi epitassw exelqe ex autou kai mhketi eiselqhV eiV auton
Latin405VulgateEt clamans et multum discerpens eum exiit ab eo et factus est sicut mortuus ita ut multi dicerent quia mortuus est
Old English990West SaxonAnd se hælend ge-seah þa to-eornendenmanigeo. He be-bead þam unclænangaste þus cweðende. Eale deafe and dumbegast ic beode þe ga of him & ne ga þu lengon hine.
Middle English1395WyclifAnd he criynge, and myche to breidynge him, wente out fro hym; and he was maad as deed, so that many seiden, that he was deed.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleWhen Iesus sawe that the people came runnynge togedder vnto him he rebuked the foule sprete sayinge vnto him: Thou domme and deffe sprete I charge the come out of him and entre no more into him.
Jacobean English1611King JamesWhen Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.
Victorian English1833WebsterWhen Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying to him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.
Basic English1964OgdenAnd when Jesus saw that the people came running together, he gave orders to the unclean spirit, saying to him, You, spirit, who are the cause of his loss of voice and hearing, I say to you, come out of him, and never again go into him.

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

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Matched Bible Translations: Foul

LanguageMark Chapter 9, Verse 25
CebuanoUg sa pagkakita ni Jesus nga ang panon sa katawhan nanagdungan sa pagsingabut nga nagdalagan, ang mahugawng espiritu iyang gibadlong nga nag-ingon kaniya, "Ikaw espiritu nga makapaamang ug makapabungol, nagasugo ako kanimo, gumula ka ug ayaw na siya sudli pag-usab."
CroatianVidjevši da svijet odasvud grne, Isus zaprijeti neèistomu duhu: "Nijemi i gluhi duše, ja ti zapovijedam, iziði iz njega i da nisi više u nj ušao!"
DanishMen da Jesus så, at Skaren stimlede sammen, truede han den urene Ånd og sagde til den: "Du målløse og døve Ånd! jeg byder dig, far ud af ham, og far ikke mere ind i ham!"
DutchEn Jezus ziende, dat de schare gezamenlijk toeliep, bestrafte den onreinen geest, zeggende tot hem: Gij stomme en dove geest! Ik beveel u, ga uit van hem, en kom niet meer in hem.
FinnishMutta kun Jeesus näki, että kansaa riensi sinne, nuhteli hän saastaista henkeä ja sanoi sille: "Sinä mykkä ja kuuro henki, minä käsken sinua: lähde ulos hänestä, äläkä enää häneen mene".
FrenchJésus, voyant accourir la foule, menaça l`esprit impur, et lui dit: Esprit muet et sourd, je te l`ordonne, sors de cet enfant, et n`y rentre plus.
GaelicIs nuair a chunnaic Iosa an sluagh a ruith cuideachd, mhaoidh e air an spiorad neoghlan, a cantuinn ris: A spioraid bhodhair agus bhailbh tha mi ag aithneadh ort, theirig a mach as `s na rach a stigh ann tuilleadh.
GermanDa nun Jesus sah, daß das Volk zulief, bedrohte er den unsauberen Geist und sprach zu ihm: Du sprachloser und tauber Geist, ich gebiete dir, daß du von ihm ausfahrest und fahrest hinfort nicht in ihn!
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariWaktu Yesus melihat bahwa orang banyak mulai datang berkerumun, Ia memerintahkan roh jahat itu dengan berkata, "Roh tuli dan bisu, Aku perintahkan kau keluar dari anak ini dan jangan sekali-kali masuk lagi ke dalamnya!"
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaSerta dilihat oleh Yesus akan orang banyak berkerumun di tempat itu, maka ditengking-Nya setan itu serta berkata kepadanya, "Hai setan yang kelu dan tuli, Aku suruhkan engkau keluar daripadanya, dan jangan engkau masuk pula ke dalamnya."
MaoriA, no te kitenga o Ihu i te mano e oma mai ana, ka riria e ia te wairua poke, ka mea ki a ia, E te wairua reokore, turi, ko taku tenei ki a koe, Puta mai i roto i a ia, kaua ano e tomo ki roto ki a ia a muri ake nei.
NorwegianMen da Jesus så at folket løp til, truet han den urene ånd og sa til den: Du målløse og døve ånd! jeg byder dig: Far ut av ham, og far aldri mere inn i ham!
PortugueseE Jesus, vendo que a multidão, correndo, se aglomerava, repreendeu o espírito imundo, dizendo: Espírito mudo e surdo, eu te ordeno: Sai dele, e nunca mais entres nele.   
RumanianCknd a vqzut Isus cq norodul vine kn fuga mare spre El, a mustrat duhul necurat, wi i -a zis: ,,Duh mut wi surd, kyi poruncesc sq iewi afarq din copilul acesta, wi sq nu mai intri kn el.``
ShuarTura shuar Untsurí Káunainian Jesus Wáiniak kakantuk "Empeku chichachu awajin iwianchi Jíinkitia, Tájame. Jíinkim ataksha wayawaipia" Tímiayi.
SwahiliYesu alipouona umati wa watu unaongezeka upesi mbele yake, alimkemea yule pepo mchafu, "Pepo unayemfanya huyu mtoto kuwa bubu-kiziwi, nakuamuru, mtoke mtoto huyu wala usimwingie tena!"
SwedishMen när Jesus såg att folk strömmade tillsammans dit, tilltalade han den orene anden strängt och sade till honom: "Du stumme och döve ande, jag befaller dig: Far ut ur honom, och kom icke mer in i honom."
UmaNahilo Yesus kawoo-woria' tauna to mokeno tumai morumpu. Kanahawai' -nami anudaa' toe, na'uli': "Ee anudaa' to mepakawongo pai' mepakawojo tetu-ko! Petibo' -ko ngkai ana' tetui, pai' neo' -pi nupesuai' nculii'."

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

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Derivations & Misspellings: Foul

Derivations

Words beginning with "foul": foulard, foulards, foulbrood, foulbroods, fouled, fouler, foulest, fouling, foulings, foully, foulmouthed, foulness, foulnesses, fouls. (additional references)

Words ending with "foul": afoul, befoul, overfoul. (additional references)

Words containing "foul": antifouling, befouled, befouler, befoulers, befouling, befouls, biofouling, biofoulings. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Foul" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aoul, doul, fal, falu, faul, fauld, Faull, faulx, faup, fauq, feuo, fluo, foall, focul, foirl, foiu, Fojut, fol, fonul, foool, forl, fou, foud, foug, foui, fould, foull, foult, fouly, foun, Fous, fout, fouw, Foux, Fpu, frul, fucl, fuo, fuom, fuoz, fuul, Gokul, goul, Koul, noul, ofel, Oulg, zoul. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Foul"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "foul" (pronounced fou"l)
3f ou" lafoul, fowl.
2-ou" lcowl, growl, howl, jowl, owl, prowl, scowl.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Foul

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "f-l-o-u"

-1 letter: flu, fou.

-2 letters: lo, of.

 Words containing the letters "f-l-o-u"
 

+1 letter: afoul, flour, flout, fluor, fouls, sulfo, woful.

 

+2 letters: befoul, boxful, flours, floury, flouts, fluors, folium, fouled, fouler, foully, joyful, outfly, potful, sobful, topful, tufoli, unfold, upflow, upfold, woeful.

 

+3 letters: befouls, boatful, bookful, bowlful, boxfuls, buffalo, conflux, doleful, doomful, fallout, flavour, floccus, floruit, flounce, flouncy, floured, flouted, flouter, flummox, fluoric, fluorid, fluorin, fluxion, foldout, folious, foliums, forkful, formful, formula, foulard, foulest, fouling, fulsome, fulvous, furlong, hopeful, moanful, mouflon, mudflow, nonfuel, odorful, ourself, outfall, outfeel, outfelt, outflew, outflow, outfool, potfuls, poutful, roomful, songful, souffle, soulful, sulfone, toilful, topfull, ufology, unfolds, upflows, upfolds, wofully.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Sounds
9. Quotations: Familiar
10. Quotations: Historic
11. Quotations: Fiction
12. Quotations: Non-fiction
13. Usage Frequency
14. Expressions
15. Expressions: Internet
16. Translations: Modern
17. Translations: Ancient
18. Bible Trace
19. Derivations
20. Rhymes
21. Anagrams
22. Bibliography


  

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