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Definition of Foully
1. Adverb. In an unfair and insulting manner. "This internationally known writer was foully condemned by the Muslim fundamentalists"
2. Adverb. In a wicked and shameful manner. "Two policemen were foully murdered"
Definition of Foully
1. v. In a foul manner; filthily; nastily; shamefully; unfairly; dishonorably.
Definition of Foully
1. Adverb. In a foul manner ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Foully
1. in a foul manner [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foully
Literary usage of Foully
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks, Oxford by William Cobbett (1908)
"... that was one step towards doing justice to him, whom their order have so much,
so foully, and, if they knew their own interest, so foolishly slandered. ..."
2. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"A ferryman of gruesome guise keeps ward Upon these waters, — Charon, foully
garbed, With unkempt, thick gray board upon his chin, And staring eyes of flame; ..."
3. A History of New York: From the Beginning of the World to the End of the by Washington Irving (1868)
"... BE foully DISHONORED AT FORT UUED HOOP. SEVER was a more comprehensive, a more
expeditious, or, what is still better, a more economical measure devised, ..."
4. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1918)
"... liberty and the serving of his country, was he thus foully murdered. As you
well know, the pathway of his youth was not smoothed with ..."
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