He may be the fashion of Paris and at Court, but down here his very name befouls the air. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)
And how did it come to eclipse the idea of simply slapping a tax on energy consumption that befouls the public square or leaves the nation hostage to foreign oil producers? ❋ Unknown (2009)
The musty smell that befouls clothes left to sit in the washing machine after washing is the top "unmet consumer concern in the laundry room," according to a Whirlpool Corporation survey. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Containing forty-three different sulfur compounds, including the same ones found in onions, garlic and skunks, this spiky fruit befouls any enclosed space. ❋ Adam Leith Gollner (2008)
Oh, nature is disgusting; it takes beauty and defiles it: it defaces the ivory-white body we have adored, with the vile cicatrices of maternity: it befouls the altar of the soul. ❋ Unknown (2007)
There, surrounded by silent tombstones and armed Secret Service Police, this most infamous of military deserters befouls not only the hallowed ground, but the very air, as he regurgitates words he babbled the year before ... and the year before. ❋ Unknown (2006)
This affliction causes them to overfeed the Dark Lord a-more with their incessant compromises in the workplace, and He devours and digests their creepy and self-negating decisions by day, and befouls them anew with the sooty issue of their moral failures each evening. ❋ Douglas Hoffman (2005)
When the Committee to Save Boston University brings the controversy into the pages of The New York Review in a manner that disgraces the most elementary standards of scholarly honesty, it befouls the forum in which it appears. ❋ McCracken, Samuel (1980)
“Yes,” she said, “I get irritated likewise, no end, whenever something like this befouls creation.” ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 (1978)
I have said nothing of that unnatural specimen of humanity, sometimes called a "loafer," and by still more ignoble names, who, to use a vulgar term, "grubs" on his parents, drinks what he earns and befouls the home he robs, with his loathsome presence and scandalous living. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The same is laid down for one who befouls a blazing fire (by throwing impure things on it). ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)
Dionysius was far from teaching, like Cyprian, that baptism by a heretic rather befouls than cleanses; but he was impressed by the opinion of many bishops and some councils that repetition of such a baptism was necessary, and it appears that he besought Pope Stephen not to break off communion with the Churches of ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Here as the waters swept under the stony arches of the bridges, old women tucked up their petticoats and fished for the richness with which a city befouls its river. ❋ Alice Ames Winter (1904)
You mean that the law gives me no weapon against a man who, knowing his condition, takes a young girl, sound, trusting, innocent, and befouls her with the result of his debauches -- makes her the mother of a poor little creature, whose future is such that those who love her the most do not know whether they ought to pray for her life, or for her immediate deliverance? ❋ Eug��ne Brieux (1895)
All outlay devoted to culture, to beauty, to invigoration has dried up; all that survives is what stimulates, what depraves and befouls; frivolities, substitutes and swindles. ❋ Walther Rathenau (1894)
Please [excuse me], [sir], but did you befoul [this chair] after eating that LaxMaster-Burrito™? ❋ BlastMaster (2003)
"... I made [sweet sweet love] to the [pool table], which I [later] befouled" ❋ Niraco (2005)
[Aidan]: “Nah, [Bonathan] isn’t coming back this semester?”
(Later)
[Kirk]: “Guys I think Aidan’s pulling a Befouled Bonathan again.” ❋ LargeDavid (2021)
