be rotten
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And I don’t know how it’ll age — maybe it will age like an egg on concrete and it’ll be rotten in a few years.
From The Verge ● Dec. 4, 2019
I’m sorry for your brother-in-law; living in the closet in the public eye must be rotten.
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2019
"This institution," she said, "seems to be rotten to its very core".
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2019
But even in that portrayal, she pictures herself guilty only of naivete; the husband was an apparently good catch who proved to be rotten.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2019
Alsvindr was huge for a horse—much taller than either of the Ivanov family’s horses—and since he had belonged to such a rotten man, everyone expected him to be rotten too.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
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