foul
adjective
grossly offensive to the senses; disgustingly loathsome; noisome.
foully
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a word derived from
foul.
Example Sentences
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Ms. Sampson doesn’t minimize Percy’s infidelities, depicting them as foully traumatic for Mary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2018
Giamatti’s character, the sweaty, hovel-dwelling Benno Levin, summarizes his principled objections to Packer’s existence concisely: “You are foully, berserkly rich.”
From Slate ● Aug. 16, 2012
The moguls who ran the movie world treated her foully.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 3, 2012
“Dost thou desire her foully for those things that make her good?”
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2011
My quarters were uncomfortable, certainly, they were foully dirty and bitterly cold; but it never occurred to me that they were actually unsafe.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
