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3. (of weather) stormy, squally, gusty, blasty, blustery, disagreeable, sloppy; misty, foggy, rainy, drizzly, sleety, wet; cloudy, overcast, bleak, murky, gloomy, leaden, threatening.
4. unsportsmanlike, unfair, dishonorable, dishonest, deceitful, deceptive; crooked, criminal, villainous, knavish, rascally, corrupt, fraudulent; venal, bribable, mercenary, corruptible; unscrupulous, immoral, unprincipled, shameless; treacherous, two-faced, back-stabbing, underhanded; slippery, tricky, Inf shady, sinister.
5. abominable, abhorrent, loathsome, execrable, despicable, contemptible, heinous, scurvy, odious, detestable, hateful; obnoxious, offensive, disgusting, revolting, repulsive, repugnant; nauseous, nauseating, sickening; infamous, ignoble, scandalous, disgraceful; base, low, abject, mean, vile, sordid, wicked; flagitious, nefarious, iniquitous, atrocious, vicious.
6. obscene, vulgar, coarse, gross, smutty, risqu6, indelicate, indecent, improper, immodest, suggestive, off-color, Inf blue; lewd, salacious, pornographic, scatologic, Sl. raunchy; scurrilous, ribald, abusive, blasphemous, thersitical, irreverent, profane, Fescen-nine; insulting, offensive, slighting, outrageous. -adv. 7.

run foul or

afoul of come into conflict or controversy or collision with, get in trouble with, run into trouble with, Sl. have a hassle with, run up against. -n. 8. violation, infraction, infringement, transgression. -v. 9. soil, stain, spot, smudge, muddy, sully, pollute; splash, spatter, Inf. slop up; bedraggle, draggle, begrime, besmear, smear, smirch, besmirch, befoul; blacken, tarnish. 10. contaminate, defile, taint, pollute, infect, putrefy, poison, envenom. 11. collide with, crash into, smash into, run into, bump into Inf. plow into Brit. Sl. prang. 12. dishonor, disgrace, shame, reproach, degrade, abase, debase, vitiate; discredit, depreciate, devaluate; demean, belittle, derogate, disparage, decry; denigrate, slur, impute, asperse, defame. 13.

foul up Sl. bungle, botch, Inf. flub, Inf. muff, spoil, SI. bitch, Sl. blow; hash, muddle, mangle, Sl. screw up, Sl. mess up, Sl. louse up, Inf. bolix, gum up the works, U.S. Inf. throw a monkey wrench into.

foulmouthed, adj. 1. profane, blackguardly, Obs. blackguard, Fescennine, rough-spoken; scurrilous, Archaic. scurrile, thersitical, ribald.
2. vulgar, obscene, indecent, gross, vile, filthy, dirty, smutty, nasty, scatologic, scatological, Sl. raunchy; crude, crass, rude, boorish, loutish, brutish; coarse, rough, base, lowly.
3. abusive, affronting, insulting, Archaic, affrontive; vituperative, contumelious, objurgatory, objurgative.

foul play, n. 1. treachery, perfidiousness, perfidy, duplicity, guile, double-dealing; sharp practice, Inf. dirty trick, underhanded dealing; villainy, roguery, knavery; fraud, deception, chicanery, skulduggery; assault, attack, outrage; murder, manslaughter, assassination, homicide.
2. unfair conduct, unfairness, Sl. dirty pool, un-sportsmanliness, low blow, a hit below the belt; violation, transgression.

found, v. 1. establish, start, give rise to, create, originate, bring into being, bring about; institute, set up, organize, develop.