befoul

Example Sentences

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The city is also responding to months of complaints about homeless people blocking and befouling public spaces, menacing passers-by and committing random assaults.

From New York Times

In total, America's unresolved history its and accompanying need for a moral reckoning gave birth to the befouled creature that is Trumpism and American neofascism — and continues to give it life.

From Salon

In this way, the victims and descendants of racial oppression wouldn't have to live with tainted shadows, befouled blood and nightmares every moment of their lives.

From Salon

We can remove this awful man from our collective headspace, which he has so thoroughly befouled.

From Washington Post

But what I saw was public space, befouled and polluted.

From Washington Post