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  • adjective superlative form of foul: most foul.

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Examples

  • “Shatm” — abuse, generally couched in foulest language with especial reference to the privy parts of female relatives.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Buttocks of boys, and woke at morn in foulest mess

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Old men growled in their beards, and Mrs. Merriwether who feared nothing rose slightly in her carriage and said clearly: “Speculator!” in a tone that made the word the foulest and most venomous of epithets.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • Old men growled in their beards, and Mrs. Merriwether who feared nothing rose slightly in her carriage and said clearly: “Speculator!” in a tone that made the word the foulest and most venomous of epithets.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • Old men growled in their beards, and Mrs. Merriwether who feared nothing rose slightly in her carriage and said clearly: “Speculator!” in a tone that made the word the foulest and most venomous of epithets.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • Old men growled in their beards, and Mrs. Merriwether who feared nothing rose slightly in her carriage and said clearly: “Speculator!” in a tone that made the word the foulest and most venomous of epithets.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • Old men growled in their beards, and Mrs. Merriwether who feared nothing rose slightly in her carriage and said clearly: “Speculator!” in a tone that made the word the foulest and most venomous of epithets.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • Not Elfrida nor any one living at that time could have foretold the effect on the people generally of this deed, described as the foulest which had been done in Saxon times.

    Dead Man's Plack and an Old Thorn 1881

  • The book is a hyper-real look at the gritty side of superheroes, filled with hardcore sex, violence and the foulest of language.

    Samuel Bayer to Direct THE BOYS Adaptation? « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2010

  • Lamenting the sickly, stunted bodies of workers forced to breathe the foulest air our species had ever created, he wrote: "Let this be our claim: pure air and pure water for every inhabitant of the British Isles."

    Alfred Russel Wallace by Tim Flannery 2011

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