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FOULLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does foully mean? 

FOULLY (adverb)
  The adverb FOULLY has 2 senses:

1. in an unfair and insulting mannerplay

2. in a wicked and shameful mannerplay

  Familiarity information: FOULLY used as an adverb is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FOULLY (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

In an unfair and insulting manner

Synonyms:

foully; insultingly

Context example:

this internationally known writer was foully condemned by the Muslim fundamentalists

Pertainym:

foul (violating accepted standards or rules)


Sense 2

Meaning:

In a wicked and shameful manner

Context example:

two policemen were foully murdered


 Context examples 


He is foully murdered, my fair lord.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But if not, there is no object in raking up this scandal against a dead man, foully as he has acted.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Ah, sir, there’s blood foully shed in every step of it!

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Would ye see a fair lady and two gallant knights done foully to death?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Foully murdered, with a score of wounds upon him and a rope round his neck, his poor friend had been cast from the upper window and swung slowly in the night wind, his body rasping against the wall and his disfigured face upon a level with the casement.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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