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Definition of Foul play
1. Noun. Unfair or dishonest behavior (especially involving violence).
Definition of Foul play
1. Noun. Unfair, unethical, or criminal behavior, especially of a malicious or violent nature. ¹
2. Noun. Any violation of rules. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foul Play
Literary usage of Foul play
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bookman (1903)
"foul play Drama, five acts. Once • Week.] Dora Pastoral drama, three acts.
The Double Marriage Drama, five acts. Put Yourself in His Place. ..."
2. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth by James Anthony Froude (1881)
"... that this person should die in a mysterious violent manner, and yet that there
should have been no foul play after all, would have been a combination of ..."
3. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"At the bene and »t the cat, A foul play holde у that V\. Л ,: .: , (4) Bane ;
destruction. ... foul play ..."
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