Synonyms:
disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky
Meaning: highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench"
Synonyms:
cheating(a), dirty, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike
Meaning: violating accepted standards or rules; "a dirty fighter"; "used foul means to gain power"; "a nasty unsporting serve"; "fined for unsportsmanlike behavior"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
foul
Meaning: an act that violates the rules of a sport
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
foul
Meaning: hit a foul ball
Synonyms:
pollute, foul, contaminate
Meaning: make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake"
Usage examples
Only they are not called foul blows.
"Perhaps you committed the foul deeds yourself."
Obstinate's foul tongue has almost made Pliable a Christian.
Fair and legitimate means were therefore laid aside, and a foul policy adopted.
A foul blue cloud of cigarette smoke rose from the mass and hung in the thick air.
Dummy boards of directors and fake accountings are not foul blows of the fist under the belt.
Almost every businessman is trying to get the better of some other business man by fair means or foul."
The ways were foul and narrow; the shops and houses wretched; the people half-naked, drunken, slipshod, ugly.
It's a foul thing to bring such an accusation up against a man who has lived a spotless life for thirty years.
I answered with some foul insult by way of thanks, and so we parted, and I set off towards the bungalow village.