Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete spelling of fowler.

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  • noun One who fouls.
  • adjective comparative form of foul: more foul

Etymologies

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foul +‎ -er

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Examples

  • The greater were God's favors to them from the first, the fouler was their ingratitude in forsaking Him (Jer

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • It was as if the Black Beast, in one of his fouler moods, had escaped my body and infected everyone else.

    The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011

  • Conan roared and then belched forth a stream of much fouler curses.

    Archive 2010-02-01 Cromsblood 2010

  • Conan roared and then belched forth a stream of much fouler curses.

    More Conan Fan Fiction! Cromsblood 2010

  • But by nearly all metrics, the political atmosphere is fouler now than even in 1992, when Mr. Perot ran on opposition to federal deficit spending and the North American Free Trade Agreement.

    Antsy Voters Look for a Third Way Neil King Jr. 2011

  • Slater allows this an attenuated sentence, while Ackroyd quotes a fuller and even fouler version of the same letter, adding, “It is not often that a great novelist recommends genocide.”

    The Dark Side of Dickens 2010

  • The only thing it would accomplish is making the world smell somehow fouler.

    Zombies Calling Thomas Pluck 2011

  • Nobody has a "Who, me?" face quite like Kevin Davies, which is unsurprising because he gets more practice than anyone else – last season was the sixth out of eight in which he was the division's most frequent fouler.

    Bolton Wanderers Premier League 2011-12 team guide 2011

  • It was as if the Black Beast, in one of his fouler moods, had escaped my body and infected everyone else.

    The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011

  • Black Pat successfully embodies the crushing physical weight of depressive illness, and the crude banality of his torments illuminate its brutal power to strip away joy; but, for all his foul tongue and fouler breath, the monstrous dog fails to penetrate the darker psychological landscape of depression, so that the novel never packs quite the punch that it promises.

    Mr Chartwell by Rebecca Hunt – review Clare Clark 2010

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