Foulness Synonyms

Impure condition
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. defilement
  2. dirtiness
  3. impurity
  4. malodorousness
  5. pollution
  6. uncleanness
  7. stinkiness
  8. unwholesomeness
  9. rankness
  10. fetidness
(of weather) the badness of the weather
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. raininess

Words Related to Foulness

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. clean
  2. decent
  3. Gileston
  4. loughor

Foulness Sentence Examples

  • There are, however, a good many instances recorded of what has been called a fumigatory use of frankincense in churches, by which it was sought to purify the air, in times of public sickness, or to dispel the foulness caused by large congregations, or poisonous gases arising from ill-constructed vaults under the church floor.

  • What Hitler did in his concentration camps was equaled if not exceeded in foulness by the soviet gulags, forced starvation and pogroms.

  • The profound horror with which the Christian's conception of a suffering as well as an avenging divinity tended to make him regard all condemnable acts was tinged with a sentiment which we may perhaps describe as a ceremonial aversion moralized - the aversion, that is, to foulness or impurity.

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