Noun
1. an act that violates of the rules of a sport
Verb
1. hit a foul ball
2. make impure;
3. become or cause to become obstructed;
4. commit a foul; break the rules
5. spot, stain, or pollute;
6. make unclean;
7. become soiled and dirty
Adjective
1. highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust;
2. offensively malodorous;
3. violating accepted standards or rules;
4. (of a baseball) not hit between the foul lines
5. (of a manuscript) defaced with changes;
6. thoroughly unpleasant;
7. characterized by obscenity;
8. disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter;
9. especially of a ship's lines etc;
What a foul day it is!
I've had a foul morning; everything's gone wrong.
Once you have eliminated the obvious causes of death, you must consider the possibility of foul play.
The house was filled with foul odour.
The water in the swamp is foul.
By parking your car here, you could fall foul of the law.
The prisoner used foul language towards the policeman.
The footballer made a professional foul.
His action ran foul of the law.
When everything is running smoothly, why must he step in and foul thing up?
The footballer tried to foul.
Take off those foul clothes and let me wash them.
Murder is a foul deed.
Players were warned twice for foul play.
He had fallen foul of the FBI.
Deprived of the crushing victory it was confidently expecting, the party cried foul.
If they disputed his allegation, Paul would rip into them with every foul word you could imagine.
He had a foul mouth.
One of the judges thought it was a foul throw.
The report says it suspects foul play was involved in the deaths of two journalists.
Local detectives have ruled out foul play.
The language is foul and the violence horribly realistic.
When he came back, he was in a foul mood.
He was in a foul mood because he had been stood up.
Judge Isabel Oliva said last night: "I have closed the case. There was no foul play."
foul one's (own) nest
do something damaging or harmful to oneself or one's own interests
foul something up ( 或 foul up)
make a mistake with or spoil something
leaders should admit when they completely foul things up.
foul out
&I{Sports} To be put out of a game for exceeding the number of permissible fouls.
foul up
To blunder or cause to blunder because of mistakes or poor judgment.
dirty, foul, nasty
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