rottenness

Example Sentences

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He said the "whole of this case indicates a very basic malaise and rottenness at the system".

From BBC • Aug. 16, 2023

Läckberg uses the third person in these chapters, distancing the reader from Faye just as she seems to distance herself from the rottenness at her life’s core.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2020

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

Those revelations of rottenness that I mentioned before?

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2019

I felt they cut right to the heart of the matter, to the essential rottenness of the world.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt