rottenness
Example Sentences
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Is Greenwald a stand-in for this famously outspoken Hollywood iconoclast, condemning the irredeemable rottenness of the system that employed him?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2023
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
Torak stumbled into the sun -and into a stench of rottenness.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
