foul
61foul — adjective 1》 offensive to the senses. ↘informal very disagreeable or unpleasant. ↘(of the weather) wet and stormy. 2》 morally offensive; wicked or obscene. ↘done contrary to the rules of a sport. 3》 polluted or contaminated.… …
62foul-up — {n.} (stress on foul ) 1. {informal} A confused situation; confusion; mistake. * /The luncheon was handled with only one or two foul ups./ 2. {informal} A breakdown. * /There was a foul up in his car s steering mechanism./ 3. {slang} A person who …
63foul-up — {n.} (stress on foul ) 1. {informal} A confused situation; confusion; mistake. * /The luncheon was handled with only one or two foul ups./ 2. {informal} A breakdown. * /There was a foul up in his car s steering mechanism./ 3. {slang} A person who …
64foul-up — noun (stress on foul ) 1. informal A confused situation; confusion; mistake. The luncheon was handled with only one or two foul ups. 2. informal A breakdown. There was a foul up in his car s steering mechanism. 3. slang A person who fouls up or… …
65foul up — phrasal verb [intransitive/transitive] Word forms foul up : present tense I/you/we/they foul up he/she/it fouls up present participle fouling up past tense fouled up past participle fouled up 1) to do something wrong, or to spoil something,… …
66foul up — 1. in. to blunder; to mess up. □ Please don’t foul up this time. □ The quarterback fouled up in the first quarter, and that lost us the game. 2. n. a blunder; an error. (Usually foul up.) □ That was a fine foul up! Is that your specialty? …
67foul — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. dirty, soiled, disgusting; stormy, unpleasant; obscene, indecent; clogged, choked, entangled; unfair, underhand. See uncleanness, impurity, improbity. fall foul of II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Soiled] …
68foul — [OE] The underlying meaning of foul is probably ‘rotten, putrid’, with overtones of ‘evilsmelling’. It goes back to an Indo European *pu , which may originally have been inspired by the same reaction as produced the English exclamation of disgust …
69foul — 1. adjective 1) a foul smell Syn: disgusting, revolting, repulsive, repugnant, abhorrent, loathsome, offensive, sickening, nauseating; informal ghastly, gruesome, gross 2) foul drinking water Syn …
70foul-up — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms foul up : singular foul up plural foul ups informal a mistake in a process or system that means it cannot work effectively …