Clues for the word "FOUL"
We've had 87 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 158 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Sunday crossword on January 11, 2026.
Definition of foul
- n. - A bird.
- superl. - Covered with, or containing, extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious, offensive, or obstructive; filthy; dirty; not clean; polluted; nasty; defiled; as, a foul cloth; foul hands; a foul chimney; foul air; a ship's bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles; a gun becomes foul from repeated firing; a well is foul with polluted water.
- superl. - Scurrilous; obscene or profane; abusive; as, foul words; foul language.
- superl. - Hateful; detestable; shameful; odious; wretched.
- superl. - Loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease.
- superl. - Ugly; homely; poor.
- superl. - Not favorable; unpropitious; not fair or advantageous; as, a foul wind; a foul road; cloudy or rainy; stormy; not fair; -- said of the weather, sky, etc.
- superl. - Not conformed to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.; unfair; dishonest; dishonorable; cheating; as, foul play.
- superl. - Having freedom of motion interfered with by collision or entanglement; entangled; -- opposed to clear; as, a rope or cable may get foul while paying it out.
- v. t. - To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to soil; as, to foul the face or hands with mire.
- v. t. - To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in the process of firing.
- v. t. - To cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impered its sailing; as, a bottom fouled with barnacles.
- v. t. - To entangle, so as to impede motion; as, to foul a rope or cable in paying it out; to come into collision with; as, one boat fouled the other in a race.
- v. i. - To become clogged with burnt powder in the process of firing, as a gun.
- v. i. - To become entagled, as ropes; to come into collision with something; as, the two boats fouled.
- n. - An entanglement; a collision, as in a boat race.
- n. - See Foul ball, under Foul, a.
Referring Clues
- Cold and rainy
- Cager's offense
- Infraction
- Ball hit out of bounds
- Fair's opposite
- Awful
- Free throw cause
- Basketball game stopper
- Umpire's shout
- Unfair?
- Rank
- ___ tip
- Call from home?
- Ref's call
- Not fair
- Ump's call
- Awful-smelling
- Really rotten
- Court offense
- Ball for the fans
- Sports offense
- Offensive
- ___ tip
- Outside the baselines
- Inclement
- Out of bounds
- Out of play
- Court call
- Basketball offense
- Loathsome
- It's not fair
- Umpire's call
- Fair alternative
- Disgusting
- Far from fair
- Hardly ice outside
- Word with "ball" or "language"
- Malodorous
- Umpire's cry
- One of six allowed to an N.B.A. player
- Basketball no-no
- Kind of tip, in baseball
- Type of ball or language
- Cry ___
- Batted ball into the dugout, say
- It may precede a free throw
- Cause of a free throw, often
- Basketball transgression
- Hoops hack
- Irritable
- Noisome
- Not fair, in baseball
- Baseball for the fans
- See 17
- Fetid
- Illegitimate tackle
- Gross infringement
- Use the wrong sort of tackle, perhaps
- Court violation
- Sporting misdemeanour
- Poultry's allegedly contaminated
- Vile 4 changing hands
- Opposite of fair, in baseball
- Rotten
- Bird sound, piano and song - it's murder!
- Word with weather or ball
- Polluted
- Low blow, e.g.
- Revolting
- Out of bounds, in baseball
- Out of bounds on the field
- Basketball infraction
- Basketball ref's call
- Repulsive
- Reason for a penalty kick
- Unfair in the park?
- Like a ball a 59-Across can catch
- Court infraction
- On one side of an outfield pole
- Unfair?
- "No harm, no ___"
- Terrible-smelling
- Really nasty
- Like terrible weather or odors
- Not fair, to an ump
- Free kick cause
- Outside the lines
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Sunday - January 11, 2026
- LA Times - December 10, 2025
- Daily American - December 02, 2025
- Your Life Choices - November 26, 2025
- Daily American - October 05, 2025
- Daily American - July 14, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 27, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 13, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - May 01, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - April 26, 2025
- Your Life Choices - April 25, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - April 21, 2025
- Daily American - March 27, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - March 27, 2025
- LA Times - February 16, 2025
- LA Times - January 27, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 25, 2025
- USA Today - December 12, 2024
- Your Life Choices - August 24, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - August 19, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - July 09, 2024
- USA Today - March 30, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - February 27, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - January 03, 2024
- Daily American - December 02, 2023
- USA Today - October 27, 2023
- Mirror Daily - October 07, 2023
- Daily American - October 05, 2023
- Daily American - July 14, 2023
- New York Times - July 03, 2023
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