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 β Oct. 2, 2023
He said the "whole of this case indicates a very basic malaise and rottenness at the system".
From BBC β 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 β Jun. 19, 2020
Those revelations of rottenness that I mentioned before?
From New York Times β 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
