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Residents of Savannah, now a tourist mecca known for its moss-draped squares and antebellum architecture, tolerated the river pollution and dismissed the mill’s rotten odor as “the smell of money.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

"Apple built its reputation by paying close attention to the smallest details. This lawsuit does the opposite," OpenAI's lawyers say in their filing, which continues to describe Apple's complaint as "rotten to its core."

From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026

The meat has been described as tasting like a cross between kipper and steak or "salty goose" and, less flatteringly, as "rotten leather and fishy beef", external.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

Moldy, bruised and rotten fruits and vegetables should also be avoided.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

Why should we listen to someone rotten enough to do what Pamela did?

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

This is an illness, a mania, but seems more like something a writer might envy, which feels even rottener than envy usually does, because Gould was a toothless madman who slept in the street.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 27, 2015

Back in England, he yanked some young offenders out of the regular prisons, moved them away from the older, rottener apples to a Kentish village called Borstal.

From Time Magazine Archive

The wooden bridge is more askew, rottener than I remember.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Then to the head-carver he said: "What you had best do is to serve me with what they call ollas podridas—and the rottener they are the better they smell!"

From The Story of Don Quixote by Florence Choate

Why, they're rottener than nine-tenths of the blokes that follow this show—every mother's son of 'em.

From The Rose in the Ring by George Barr McCutcheon

Oliver’s efforts to save Manny require the kind of ruthless cunning he learned earlier from the rottenest of rotten cops.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2018

“He is very, very dead. The rottenest of the rotten. . . . But hey, we have his plays, so voilà.”

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 12, 2014

“It was the rottenest clinch they ever had in a movie,” Ms. Channing says after describing their awkward practice session.

From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2012

Made from the juiciest of rotten apples, the rottenest of juicy maggots, and bits of skin and rags that fell into the barrel.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 22, 2010

Her name is Sally Jackson and she’s the best person in the world, which just proves my theory that the best people have the rottenest luck.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan