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

You don’t need to see inside sealed legal filings to understand that the foulness wafted down from the top.

From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2020

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

He was thinking that if only he could get the Bloodbottler to take one bite of the repulsive vegetable, the sheer foulness of its flavour would send him bellowing out of the cave.

From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl