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
As with the barbaric gods, so with the classic deities, who equally supplied material of which to make foul fiends.
From The Grotesque in Church Art by Wildridge, T. Tindall
We'll make foul weather with despised tears; Our sighs and they shall lodge the summer corn And make a dearth in this revolting land.
From King Richard II by Shakespeare, William
Delight is naturally formed by the participle de and light, to make light, in the same way as "debase," to make base, "defile," to make foul.
From Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850 by Various
