foulness

Example Sentences

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The foulness is in the very air they breathe; they might choke if they thought about it.

From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2022

My entirely inadequate advice will remain unchanged: Sit in the foulness of the roiling storm and do your work, whatever that may be, and triangulate by the light of whatever star feels eternal to you.

From Slate • Nov. 4, 2022

How does she have time to throw such petty foulness into the town square?

From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2021

And across China, the smog becomes a dominant topic on social media, with the population tracking the foulness of the air via mobile phone apps.

From BBC • Jan. 14, 2017

In Great Wexly, foulness lay on the wide road where we walked.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi