What does foul mean?
Foul means Covered with, or containing unclean matter; dirty..
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/faʊl/ · adjective
Covered with, or containing unclean matter; dirty..
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.
A ship's bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles
A well is foul with polluted water.
It was, however, most interesting work, and the moulders themselves were a decent crowd, never tired of making jokes about themselves such as the hoary one that moulders did not live long, which however ran counter to the other one that no germs could live in a foundry—the atmosphere was too foul.
Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
The rascal spewed forth a series of foul words.
Use foul when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Foul means Covered with, or containing unclean matter; dirty..
Common synonyms include shameful, odious, wretched, frightful.
Possible antonyms include fair, baste, unclog, fair ball.
This cloth is too foul to use as a duster.
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