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
If a player throws their arms skyward upon contact like they’ve just crawled through 500 yards of sewage-smelling foulness to escape the Shawshank penitentiary, then yes, they’re probably flopping.
From The Guardian • Oct. 30, 2019
What should he do with the carton of foulness he now possessed?
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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