Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Using scurrilous, opprobrious, obscene, or profane language; given to abusive or filthy speech.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Using language scurrilous, opprobrious, obscene, or profane; abusive.

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  • adjective That uses obscene language

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective using foul or obscene language

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Examples

  • Rahm's tone has been pretty dismissive and foul-mouthed and downright "tone deaf" during his time in the job.

    Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [140] -- Pledging Nonsense Chris Weigant 2010

  • In 2006 the foul-mouthed Stern, who is the most heavily fined broadcast personality by the FCC ever, vowed to leave the public airwaves because he couldn't be filthy enough to please his listeners, and joined Mel Karmazin's Sirius Satellite Radio, which at the time was locked in a mano-e-mano battle with XM Radio.

    Charles Warner: Stern Should Join Imus on the Fox Business Network Charles Warner 2010

  • In programming that they originate, their down-home local guests probably employ vulgarity less than big-city folks; and small-town stations generally cannot afford or cannot attract foul-mouthed glitteratae from Hollywood.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • Rahm's tone has been pretty dismissive and foul-mouthed and downright "tone deaf" during his time in the job.

    Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [140] -- Pledging Nonsense Chris Weigant 2010

  • Last but not least, we have a story of persistence from our favorite foul-mouthed (and coincidentally, male) blogger, PhysioProf, who co-blogs at DrugMonkey.

    April Scientiae: We Rise Up Candid Engineer 2009

  • I don't know if this guy actually has Tourettes (probably not) or is just the perfect combination of stupid, foul-mouthed and quick to anger (more likely).

    Meet Tourettes Guy Tyler 2009

  • Despite being labeled a paranoid schizophrenic, it's Noah's personality -- foul-mouthed, funny and disconcertingly intuitive -- that defines him, not his diagnosis.

    Dennis Palumbo: Who (and What) Defines Normal? Dennis Palumbo 2011

  • It was a full minute into envisaging this before I realised it was Brown, the Prime Minister of England, not Ramsay the media, hungry foul-mouthed chef they were talking about.

    bits. bobs and budgeting for the barren Another Outspoken Female 2009

  • Despite being labeled a paranoid schizophrenic, it's Noah's personality -- foul-mouthed, funny and disconcertingly intuitive -- that defines him, not his diagnosis.

    Dennis Palumbo: Who (and What) Defines Normal? Dennis Palumbo 2011

  • Rahm's tone has been pretty dismissive and foul-mouthed and downright "tone deaf" during his time in the job.

    Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [140] -- Pledging Nonsense Chris Weigant 2010

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