foulness
Utter moral corruption
Foulness is the quality of being foul—offensive to the senses or morally repugnant.
It can describe physical disgust: the foulness of the air in the basement, the foulness of rotting meat.
It extends to moral corruption or wickedness: the foulness of the crime shocked even veteran detectives.
The word carries strong negative weight, suggesting something deeply unpleasant rather than mildly objectionable.
Powerfully offensive odor
- reekEmit strong odor
- miasmaHarmful atmospheric emanation
- malodorUnpleasant, offensive smell
- fetidnessExtreme bad smell
rankness · putrescence · mustiness · funk · pungency · sulfur · ammonia · sourness
Introduction of impurities
- filthFoul, accumulated matter
- sewageLiquid refuse in drains
- effluentDischarged liquid waste
- sludgeSemi-solid waste material
waste · toxins · muck · grime · slime · scum · dregs · impurity
Intense physical aversion
- revulsionIntense physical disgust
- loathsomenessQuality inspiring strong disgust
- abhorrenceExtreme hatred or disgust
- nauseaPre-vomiting stomach discomfort
offensiveness · repulsiveness · hideousness · ghastliness · gruesomeness · vileness · detestableness · odiousness
Dishonest abuse of power
- depravityProfound moral corruption
- wickednessMoral corruption or evil
- vilenessDespicable quality
- basenessMoral worthlessness
turpitude · iniquity · evil · sin · wrongdoing · dishonesty · treachery · perfidy
Vulgar or obscene speech
- vulgarityOffensive coarseness in manner
- lewdnessCrude sexual indecency
- indecencyOffensive or vulgar behavior
- smutLewd content or soot
crudeness · coarseness · filthiness · ribaldry · bawdiness · expletives · swearing · cussing
stench
Powerfully offensive odor
fetidness · rankness · putrescence · mustiness · funk · pungency · sulfur · ammonia · sourness · acridity
contamination
Introduction of impurities
sludge · waste · toxins · muck · grime · slime · scum · dregs · impurity · taint
disgust
Intense physical aversion
- revulsionIntense physical disgust
- loathsomenessQuality inspiring strong disgust
- abhorrenceExtreme hatred or disgust
nausea · offensiveness · repulsiveness · hideousness · ghastliness · gruesomeness · vileness · detestableness · odiousness · abomination
corruption
Dishonest abuse of power
- depravityProfound moral corruption
- wickednessMoral corruption or evil
- vilenessDespicable quality
baseness · turpitude · iniquity · evil · sin · wrongdoing · dishonesty · treachery · perfidy · malevolence
profanity
Vulgar or obscene speech
- vulgarityOffensive coarseness in manner
- lewdnessCrude sexual indecency
- indecencyOffensive or vulgar behavior
smut · crudeness · coarseness · filthiness · ribaldry · bawdiness · expletives · swearing · cussing · blasphemy
- taste and smelltaste, smell, flavor, gustation, olfaction
- disgustdisgust, disgusting, disgusted, revulsion, repulsion
- filthdirt, grime, dirty, filthy, muck
- smellssmell, aroma, scent, fragrance, perfume
- Stinksbody odor, skunk, rotten eggs, sewage, garbage smell
- unpleasantnesspain, anger, sadness, misery, disgust
foulnesscleanliness
Absence of dirt
purity · spotlessness · cleanness · immaculateness · sterility
foul, fouled, fouls, befoul, fouling, fouler, foulest, afoul, befouled