Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Using scurrilous, slanderous, profane, or obscene language; foul-mouthed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Using profane, scurrilous, slanderous, or obscene language; same as
foul-mouthed .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective using foul or obscene language
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word foul-spoken.
Examples
-
They started to throw me ugly looks and opened their mouths for some of the best swearing that you'll ever hear — but then they realized I wasn't a foul-spoken boy at all but a young robber baron and they fed me sugary sweets from golden spoons.
Moondog Marcus Speh 2011
-
Seven are hulking, idle, slouching young men, patched and shabby, too short in the sleeves and too tight in the legs, slimly clothed, foul-spoken, repulsive wretches inside and out.
-
In vain the wretched father stormed, and swore, and knocked down more than one foul-spoken fellow that had breathed against dear Grace.
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849
-
Go -- you're a foul-spoken fellow, and your bones will ache yet for that same speech.
-
He's a liar, a sloven, a slugabed; disobedient, neglectful, ill bred; o'erweening, foul-spoken, a dunderhead; beside which he hath divers other peccadilloes, whereof it booteth not to speak.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.