- Universal Crossword
- January 6 2024
- Awful
Awful
We have found the following answers matching the query 'Awful' in our database: For more stats and recent usage scroll down and continue reading. Awful crossword clue was last seen on January 6 2024 in the popular Universal Crossword.
Rank | Answer | Clue | Publisher | 99% | FOUL | Awful | Universal |
20% | LIFEONMARS | Bowie song that begins with the lyric Its a God-awful small affair to the girl with the mousy hair | New York Times |
20% | IDO | Phrase that can follow ... to be your lawfully wedded husband?: 2 wds. | |
20% | OHNO | Thats awful! | LA Times |
20% | REEK | Smell awful | Universal |
20% | ITSTHEPITS | Awful! ... or a hint to the common element of 17- 23- 36- and 50-Across | New York Times |
Definition
• | A bird. |
• | 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. |
• | Scurrilous; obscene or profane; abusive; as, foul words; foul language. |
• | Hateful; detestable; shameful; odious; wretched. |
• | Loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease. |
• | Ugly; homely; poor. |
• | 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. |
• | Not conformed to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.; unfair; dishonest; dishonorable; cheating; as, foul play. |
• | 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. |
• | To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to soil; as, to foul the face or hands with mire. |
• | To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in the process of firing. |
• | To cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impered its sailing; as, a bottom fouled with barnacles. |
• | 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. |
• | To become clogged with burnt powder in the process of firing, as a gun. |
• | To become entagled, as ropes; to come into collision with something; as, the two boats fouled. |
• | An entanglement; a collision, as in a boat race. |
• | See Foul ball, under Foul, a. |
Recent Usage in Crossword Puzzles:
- Universal: Jan 6, 2024
- USA Today: Feb 24, 2023
- LA Times: Jan 1, 2023
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