foulness

The sun was not idle, and the steaming thaw washed the mud and foulness from the bergs till they blazed like heaped diamonds in the brightness, or shimmered opalescent-blue.

CHAPTER 24 2010

And what modern people call the foulness and freedom of Fielding is generally the severity and moral stringency of Fielding.

All Things Considered 1905

There, in that glittering monument to the magnificence of Istanbul, they were not afraid to reveal its foulness as well.

Larissa Archer: Asian Art Museum's "Maharaja" Overlooks Crucial Cultural Questions in India Larissa Archer 2011

But he knew life, its foulness as well as its fairness, its greatness in spite of the slime that infested it, and by God he was going to have his say on it to the world.

Chapter 14 2010

If the word for sex is foul, that leads us to associate sex with foulness.

On Offensive Language | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009

That's why you leap forward to apply foulness to the path ahead of me, so that when I get there others will smell your stink and think it's mine.

What a Bunch of Apes! « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009

Standing in the stall, I carefully considered my logistical options: first thought was that I would have to take off my backpack and wing it – but this would mean placing it on the floor, directly in the sour water that emitted nothing but foulness.

Squat Toilets in A Faraway Place » Dave Brosha Photography 2009

The wind freshened, and the Pyrenees, despite the foulness of her bottom, won half a dozen miles away from the westerly current.

THE SEED OF McCOY 2010

The stench of your lack of humanity, your lack of a soul, your lack of the basic concept of being a decent human is a foulness that envelops you like a second skin.

Think Progress » Limbaugh compares Pelosi to a terrorist for saying passing health care is more important than re-election. 2010

But if anyone should wonder whether a purveyor of weekly ghost tales on television "A World Beyond", which I host, was rated number six in fall of '55, might come to feel undone by a case of extradimensional foulness, they shall herein find their answer.

Perquampi Andrew Edwards 2011