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rotten English

Meaning rotten meaning

What does rotten mean?

Definitions in simple English

rotten Adjective

— If food is rotten, it has gone bad. There's no reason to eat rotten apples . — If someone is rotten, they are cruel or mean. That rotten old teacher punished the entire class.

rotten

— adjective (= lousy, stinking) very bad a lousy play it's a stinking world — adjective having decayed or disintegrated; usually implies foulness dead and rotten in his grave — adjective (= decayed, rotted) damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless rotten floor boards rotted beams a decayed foundation

Synonyms rotten synonyms

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rotten English » English

decayed putrid bad spoiled lousy foul stinking nasty wretched rancid decomposed mean addle worthless miserable decaying worm-eaten trashy smelly old corrupt useless ugly shitty rotted rot putrefied musty fetid beastly addled withered vile stinky stale spoilt sour rank muddy mouldy filthy crappy smell bad slow rotting putrescent putrefy pus no-good no good

Topics rotten topics

What do people use rotten to talk about?

States Quality Good

Decay

What words describe something that is decaying?

rotten decayed moldy mildewed putrid rotted carious
What words describe food that is decaying?

rotten bad stale moldy sour rancid off tainted

Universe, creation Animal Animal life cycle

Egg

What words are used to describe a bad egg?

rotten cracked broken

Person Sense, perceive

Smell

What words describe something that smells bad?

smelly stinking acrid body odor awful fetid foul foul-smelling fusty malodorous moldy musty noisome pungent putrid rancid rank reeking rotten

Person Healthy Disease

Tooth decay

What words are used to describe a tooth that has gone bad?

tooth decay cavity loose rotten gingivitis

Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Trouble

Suffer

What words refer to suffering?

suffer ache for someone be afflicted with agonize endure feel horrible have a hard time be hurting be in pain feel pain feel rotten undergo go through put up with be subjected to be in the grip of be in the throes of

Examples rotten examples

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Simple sentences

Half of the apples are rotten.

I smell something rotten.

Half of these apples are rotten.

The oranges in this bag are rotten.

This food smells rotten.

All our food was rotten.

Soon ripe, soon rotten.

Some of the apples in the box were rotten.

One rotten apple spoils the barrel.

There were many rotten apples in the basket.

There were quite a few rotten apples in the basket.

Quite a lot of rotten apples were in the basket.

Half of the apple was rotten.

The rotten apple injures its neighbors.

This apple is rotten.

There's something rotten in the state of Denmark.

Tom asked Mary to throw the rotten apple into the garbage.

Movie subtitles

Anyway, that Miss' corpse isn't even rotten, I heard.

I think it will benefit you more rather then trying to mimic being generous with rotten grain.

We've had enough rotten meat!

You're so used to dealing with lousy, rotten people. you're rotten yourself!

Rotten.

It seemed rotten to think of a thing like that happening to him. a nice fellow like Kemmerick.

Call the papers and tell them that, you rotten, dirty, lying copper!

It looks rotten.

That was kind of a rotten thing to do, Anne.

I say, jill, i hardly ever see you now. 'tis rotten.

Seeing you yesterday at the auction did seem rotten.

You've been a rotten mother to him.

In the first place, it would give her a rotten headache.

The Mitidja is a rotten swamp!

Let's turn this rotten Mitidja into a garden that we can one day transform into a new republic.

Rotten dump!

Rotten luck, getting hit by that car.

Then it's a rotten needle.

Why should you be able to spend less on yourself than some women do on their rotten poodles?

And all the time she was just a rotten street walker.

Poor kid. In the first place, it would give her a rotten headache.

Good. It seemed rotten to think of a thing like that happening to him. a nice fellow like Kemmerick.

Is that why you woke me up with your rotten paintings?

And I'll give him all those rotten things to take away.

You've been a rotten mother to him. You're through with him.

It's a rotten bottle, and it's a rotten label, and it's rotten whiskey.

I'm a rotten housekeeper and a worse cook.

A rotten, hopeless marriage and find your married to a dirty little.

Nothing but men! Dirty, rotten men!

Too bad you had rotten luck.

Last one in the bus is a rotten egg.

News and current affairs

Of course, constitutions are not meant to protect the status quo if the status quo is rotten.

On the contrary, what is rotten in Ukraine is not its constitution, but its president, who is mired in charges of corruption and orchestrating the murder of journalists, and who is shunned by other world leaders.

They were just different faces of the same rotten system.

Meth users often develop rotten teeth and horrible scabs caused by scratching themselves due to a sensation of insects crawling under their skin.

Countries with well-functioning public institutions achieve higher rates of economic growth than do countries plagued by corruption and rotten judges.

America has shown itself to be second to none in practicing cronyism, first with its rotten corporate scandals of recent years, and now in Iraq.

China is now a society rotten to the core.

LONDON - There is something rotten about the European Union's debate on migration.

With the DPJ now doing the same thing, the Japanese public is flabbergasted, and people are beginning to ask if there is something rotten in their political system.

Better to stick to a tried and failed policy than to upset the apple cart, even if the apples were rotten.

Few people believe that the system is rotten and must be overthrown.

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