Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a foul manner; filthily; nastily; hatefully; scandalously; disgracefully; shamefully; unfairly; dishonestly.

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

  • verb In a foul manner; filthily; nastily; shamefully; unfairly; dishonorably.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a foul manner

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

  • adverb in a wicked and shameful manner
  • adverb in an unfair and insulting manner

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Examples

  • “I'd gurgle last words as you choked me to death, and curse you quite foully with my dying breath.”

    The Couple Who Loved Murder Con Chapman 2011

  • In the shallows fell the Captain, foully slain, and rose no more!

    The Voyage of Magellan 2010

  • Yet perhaps because the book is so skillfully wrought, one wishes that it could have been written without not just foul language but also foully specific images, such as that of a 16-year-old girl sleeping with a sadistic drug dealer.

    Desperate Kids On the Run Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011

  • Another day, another study, about grown women being foully and pointlessly competitive with each other, this time focusing on levels of one-upmanship on the school run.

    Save me from these silly school run myths | Barbara Ellen 2011

  • Also, he fought as foully as a successful fighter knows how.

    The Mexican 2010

  • That said, offence is also often in the eye of the beholder, and I can't now count the number of times a caricature of, say, Ariel Sharon has elicited the response that this is 'the most foully antisemitic cartoon since the closure of Der Stürmer'.

    Open door: The readers' editor on… the fine line between caricature and stereotype 2011

  • It was that Gussie had been foully murdered by his mad scientist friend, professor Aloysius O'Flannigan!

    "A Leak in the Fountain of Youth" by Amelia Reynolds Long, part 3 Johnny Pez 2010

  • Which merely makes all the more powerful Baker's settled conclusion that weapons inspector Dr David Kelly was murdered most foully and was not, in the words of that most famous Alabama sheriff fishing a black man out of the Mississippi with six bullet holes in his back, called 'the worst case of suicide I've ever seen'.

    Only The English are British Newmania 2008

  • But there's power as well as profit in the world of apps, and it can be exercised fairly or foully.

    I'm a Mac, but you can still hate me 2010

  • Interestingly, the Duchess never really suffers public fallout within the play for what she has done: Lussurioso simply banishes her: "The Duchess is suspected foully bent;/I'll begin dukedom with her banishment" (5. 1.173-174)

    Draft: Women's Negotiations of Moral and Material Status in The Revenger's Tragedy fantasyecho 2008

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