rottenness
Example Sentences
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Mr O'Brien says the film team made the environment look broken down, heavily overgrown with weeds and undergrowth, and with "almost a sense of rottenness inherent in the fabric of the building".
From BBC • Oct. 30, 2025
“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
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
Luminous these were too, beautiful and yet horrible of shape, like the demented forms in an uneasy dream; and they gave forth a faint sickening charnel-smell; an odour of rottenness filled the air.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
