rottenness

Example Sentences

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“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

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

Those revelations of rottenness that I mentioned before?

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2019

Despite Park’s anger—at the rottenness of North Korea, at his wife, at himself—he always carried himself with dignity, especially when it was time to eat.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden