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Kingsolver explores how anyone might possibly find a safe place in this world that we keep befouling through ignorance, greed or incompetence.

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2018

Well, for Moore, it’s a blueprint: one rich guy’s knack for befouling the neighborhood foretells another’s ability to mess up the land of the free.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 21, 2018

Assassins had visited his house on two different occasions, he said, though given his reputation for befouling the truth, that could mean that none had visited at all.

From Slate • Aug. 9, 2016

"And then there comes a threat" — Big Coal, enabling modern contrivances while befouling nature — "to their way of life. And they will have to defend it."

From US News • Jan. 22, 2016

Despite his lead codpiece, the dust—undoubtedly—filtered in and at him, brought him daily, so long as he failed to emigrate, its little load of befouling filth.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick