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foul

adjective
  1. Extremely unpleasant to the senses or feelings: atrocious, disgusting, horrid, nasty, nauseating, offensive, repellent, repulsive, revolting, sickening, ugly, unwholesome, vile. See like, pain
  2. Having an unpleasant odor: fetid, foul-smelling, malodorous, mephitic, noisome, reeky, stinking. Informal: smelly. See smells
  3. Heavily soiled; very dirty or unclean: filthy, nasty, squalid, vile. See clean
  4. Offensive to accepted standards of decency: barnyard, bawdy, broad, coarse, dirty, Fescennine, filthy, gross, lewd, nasty, obscene, profane, ribald, scatologic, scatological, scurrilous, smutty, vulgar. Slang: raunchy. See decent
  5. So objectionable as to elicit despisal or deserve condemnation: abhorrent, abominable, antipathetic, contemptible, despicable, despisable, detestable, disgusting, filthy, infamous, loathsome, lousy, low, mean 2, nasty, nefarious, obnoxious, odious, repugnant, rotten, shabby, vile, wretched. See good
verb
  1. To make physically impure: contaminate, defile, poison, pollute. See clean
  2. To twist together so that separation is difficult: ensnarl, entangle, snarl 2, tangle. See order
phrasal verb

foul up
To harm irreparably through inept handling; make a mess: ball up, blunder, boggle, botch, bungle, fumble, gum up, mess up, mishandle, mismanage, muddle, muff, spoil. Informal: bollix up, muck up. Slang: blow 1, goof up, louse up, screw up, snafu. Idiom: make a muck of. See correct, help

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