foulness

noun

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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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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. dinge
  3. filth
  4. obscenity
Noun
  • The banal village tunes that Mahler altered into sinister mock vulgarities—did these not recall the raffish klezmer bands, the wandering musicians who played at shtetl weddings?
    — David Denby, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2025
  • The real marvel, in this instance, being the avoidance of vulgarity.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2025
Definition of vulgarity
Noun
  • An earnest, has-a-costume-for-everything kind of guy, Daub is allergic to the greige and the dinge.
    — Sandra Upson, Wired, 18 Jan. 2021
  • Dinges said the two crewmembers whose sleep remained steady -- even in the absence of conventional daylight -- were those who kept to a strict schedule and found other ways to control their biological clocks.
    — Michael Nedelman, CNN, 1 June 2017
Definition of dinge
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  • Ultimately, what all of this research reveals is that the planet is dirty, even if the filth can be hard to see.
    — Benji Jones, Vox, 10 Mar. 2025
  • The water on the floor was gritty and black, and the man moved the filth around.
    — Amitava Kumar, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2025
Definition of filth
Noun
  • The early setback led to Sabalenka receiving a swift code violation as she was reprimanded for an audible obscenity.
    — Staff and news service reports, Orange County Register, 13 Mar. 2025
  • In one of the incidents, someone spray painted an obscenity believed to be directed at Musk before being chased away by a security guard, according to a Loveland police affidavit.
    — Colleen Slevin, The Denver Post, 28 Feb. 2025
Definition of obscenity
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