make foul

Example Sentences

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"It gives us cover if we want to make foul smells of our own from time to time," Edel said.

From Chicago Tribune • Apr. 10, 2011

So I dance in the moonlight, make foul jokes, or labor to shake the foundations of night with my heaped-up howls of rage.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

Crumbs they leave me that my life may not altogether go from me, but these crumbs they make foul to my taste and my smell.”

From The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Colum, Padraic

Pollute, pol-lūt′, v.t. to soil: to defile: to make foul: to taint: to corrupt: to profane: to violate.—adj. defiled.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

We may not expect to keep him away from all foul talk; but we may make foul talk disgust rather than attract him.

From The Social Emergency Studies in Sex Hygiene and Morals by Foster, William Trufant