foulness

noun

Definition of foulnessnext
1
as in grossness
the quality or state of being obscene the foulness of your language means that your post won't get on the Web site's bulletin board

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2
as in dustiness
the state or quality of being dirty she couldn't believe the foulness of her daughter's room, and ordered her to clean it

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  1. vulgarity
  2. filth
  3. obscenity
Noun
  • Policy proposals aside, there's been name-calling, vulgarity, and plain old meanness.
    Jon LaPook, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Musk shared several anti-Harris advertisements, including one funded by Musk’s pro-Trump political action committee that refers to the Vice President using misogynistic vulgarities.
    Kali Hays, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of vulgarity
Noun
  • In the middle of the nineteenth century, filth of every kind accumulated on the streets of New York.
    Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Thousands of pigs, goats, and dogs still roamed city streets in the first half of that century, feeding on refuse and decomposing filth; stories of pigs knocking over city residents and invading their homes regularly appeared in U.S. newspapers at the time.
    Thomas J. Bollyky, Foreign Affairs, 28 Mar. 2020
Definition of filth
Noun
  • These days, when people seem eager to scream obscenities at passing strangers, who can believe that anyone would take the trouble to be so subtle with an insult?
    Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The Wexner opened during the height of the culture wars, when the [Robert] Mapplethorpe show in Cincinnati was getting the museum director there prosecuted for obscenity.
    Jason Simon, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024
Definition of obscenity
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