rottenness
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“Any amount of rottenness he wants to display is perfect for this character because he has no redeeming qualities at all,” he said in a 1980 interview.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2024
He said the "whole of this case indicates a very basic malaise and rottenness at the system".
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2023
In his memoirs, Hoover quoted Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon, chief architect of the laissez-faire 1920s policies, as saying, “Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate. Purge the rottenness out of the system.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 19, 2020
The house’s fundamental, supernatural rottenness comes across from the first minutes of the film, long before we know what’s wrong with it.
From The Verge ● Mar. 24, 2019
He couldn’t see the rottenness inside my soul.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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