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foully adverb uk /ˈfaʊ.əli/ us /ˈfaʊ.əli/ old-fashioned in a way that is morally wrong and bad: My husband was stabbed in the back and foully murdered. I am a wronged man! I have been foully wronged! in a way that is extremely unpleasant: He was behaving very strangely, and swearing foully at everyone. When he first came to live here, it was a really dirty, foully polluted place. If he had obeyed me, he would not have been so foully treated. She impatiently pressed buttons on the device, cursing foully when it did not work. A man pushed past, swearing foully at the boys for getting in his way. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Morally wrong and evil abhorrent abhorrently amoral amorality anomie dissipated dissolute dissolutely dissoluteness enormity nefariousness no goodidiom no more Mr Nice Guyidiom non-ethical obscene trespass turpitude unconscionable unconscionably unethical
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