foulness

Your foulness no longer surprises you, but you have realized its power when you encounter clean soldiers and you both recoil.
Whatever You Do Someone Will Die. A Short Story About Impossible Choices in Iraq|Nathan Bradley Bethea|August 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
This resembled the old bilge-water of a ship for foulness, but both men and oxen drank of it with avidity.
Robert Moffat|David J. Deane
Though dogs I never did care for keeping, because it goes with drinking, foulness, and buffoonery!
A Desperate Character and Other Stories|Ivan Turgenev
Howard shut himself up in the cell and bore its darkness and foulness till nature could bear no more.
History of the English People, Volume VIII (of 8)|John Richard Green

Milton makes his fiends too noble, and misses the foulness, inconstancy, and fury of wickedness.
The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3)|John Ruskin
The first day, in spite of the cell's foulness, I laughed secretly at jailers and felt at peace, holding the world at bay.
Lazarre|Mary Hartwell Catherwood

British Dictionary definitions for foulness (1 of 2)

foulness

/ (ˈfaʊlnɪs) /

noun

the state or quality of being foul

obscenity; vulgarity

viciousness or inhumanity

foul matter; filth

British Dictionary definitions for foulness (2 of 2)

Foulness

/ (faʊlˈnɛs) /

noun

a flat marshy island in SE England, in Essex north of the Thames estuary

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British Dictionary definitions for foulness (1 of 2)

British Dictionary definitions for foulness (2 of 2)