foul-mouthed


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foul-mouthed

adj
given to using obscene, abusive, or blasphemous language
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Adj.1.foul-mouthed - using foul or obscene language; "noisy foul-mouthed women all shouting at once"
dirty - (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency; "dirty words"; "a dirty old man"; "dirty books and movies"; "boys telling dirty jokes"; "has a dirty mouth"
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foul-mouthed

adjective profane, offensive, obscene, abusive, coarse, blasphemous, Fescennine (rare) He's a course, foul-mouthed man.
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foul-mouthed

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foul-mouthed

[ˈfaʊlˈmaʊðd] adjsboccato/a
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"There are gentry here; the general himself is in that hut, and you foul-mouthed devils, you brutes, I'll give it to you!" shouted he, hitting the first man who came in his way a swinging blow on the back.
"Base-born and foul-mouthed knave!" cried the sompnour.
Just as she was she could have sat in advance for the portrait of the young daughter of the Regent d'Orleans, at the famous dinner whence she was carried, foul-mouthed, intoxicated, and helpless, to her bed, in the lost and lamented days of the Ancient Regime.
So great was it, that in a voice inarticulate with rage, with a stammering tongue, and eyes that flashed living fire, he exclaimed, "Rascally clown, boorish, insolent, and ignorant, ill-spoken, foul-mouthed, impudent backbiter and slanderer!
Foul-mouthed doctor and slandered professor--such would be your respective roles!
Fighting side by side with them pushed some weary street outcast in faded black rags, wide-eyed, loud-voiced, and foul-mouthed. There were sturdy workmen thrusting their way along, wretched, unkempt men, clothed like clerks or shopmen, struggling spasmodically; a wounded soldier my brother noticed, men dressed in the clothes of railway porters, one wretched creature in a nightshirt with a coat thrown over it.
After this the stockman hit Ctesippus in the breast, and taunted him saying, "Foul-mouthed son of Polytherses, do not be so foolish as to talk wickedly another time, but let heaven direct your speech, for the gods are far stronger than men.
"He's a pig-headed, foul-mouthed fool!" burst out Mr.
The man, who seemed a decent fellow enough, contented himself by telling him to `shut up for a foul-mouthed beggar', whereon our man accused him of robbing him and wanting to murder him and said that he would hinder him if he were to swing for it.
He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring disposition.
Envy, foul-mouthed, delighting in evil, with scowling face, will go along with wretched men one and all.
So he went off cursing, like the foul-mouthed blackguard that he was, and swearing that he would have her yet.