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Definition of Foiled
1. Adjective. Disappointingly unsuccessful. "His best efforts were thwarted"
Similar to: Unsuccessful
Derivative terms: Discomfited
Definition of Foiled
1. Verb. (past of FOIL) ¹
2. Verb. (past of foil) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Foiled
1. foil [v] - See also: foil
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foiled
| fogyisms foh fohawk fohawks fohn fohns fohs foiba foible foibles | foid foids foie gras foil foilable foiled (current term) foiler foilers foiling foilings | foilist foilists foils foilsman foilsmen foin foine foined foinery foining |
Literary usage of Foiled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thucydides Translated Into English by Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides (1881)
"At the same time they kept watch about the gates ; and thus the conspiracy was
foiled. ... foiled ..."
2. Manners and Customs of the Japanese, in the Nineteenth Century by Philipp Franz von Siebold (1841)
"Sir Stamford Raffles' Pacific Mission.—foiled by Dutch President. ... The slight
attempt made by the English under Charles II., which the Dutch foiled by ..."
3. Lives of the Queens of England of the House of Hanover by Doran (John) (1875)
"The scheming mother foiled— ... her innocence—Decision of the consistorial
court—The sages of the law foiled by the princess—Condemned to captivity in the ..."
4. Southern History of the War by Edward Alfred Pollard (1865)
"Meade foiled.—The "On-to-Rich- mond" Delayed. WE must take the reader's attention
from military campaigns to certain political movements, which, ..."
5. Samuel F.B. Morse: His Letters and Journals by Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Edward Lind Morse (1914)
"Bloody plot foiled. — Plans to leave for Florence. — Sends casts, etc., to National
Academy of Design. — Leaves Rome.— Dangers of the journey.— Florence. ..."
6. A History of the Commonwealth of Florence: From the Earliest Independence of by Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1865)
"... on the Arno—Feeling of parties in the city—Street broils—Second mention of
the Medici— Neri Abate fires the city—Bianchi foiled in seizing the city—Neri ..."
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