rotten
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"Apple built its reputation by paying close attention to the smallest details. This lawsuit does the opposite," OpenAI's lawyers say in their filing, which continues to describe Apple's complaint as "rotten to its core."
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
The notice of violation was issued on July 12th, after the agency received more than 40 public complaints of rotten, sour, garbage-type odors in the area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
She said it was as tall as a 14-year-old kid and smelled like rotten meat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Both KWN and Kehlani were rotten with the cold during the video shoot.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
It’s the only time I know of when a rotten egg was launched by a sling-shot.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
This is an illness, a mania, but seems more like something a writer might envy, which feels even rottener than envy usually does, because Gould was a toothless madman who slept in the street.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 27, 2015
Back in England, he yanked some young offenders out of the regular prisons, moved them away from the older, rottener apples to a Kentish village called Borstal.
From Time Magazine Archive
The wooden bridge is more askew, rottener than I remember.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
Why, they're rottener than nine-tenths of the blokes that follow this show—every mother's son of 'em.
From The Rose in the Ring by McCutcheon, George Barr
"And it's rottener of you to go talking to another woman about your wife."
From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert
Oliver’s efforts to save Manny require the kind of ruthless cunning he learned earlier from the rottenest of rotten cops.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2018
“He is very, very dead. The rottenest of the rotten. . . . But hey, we have his plays, so voilà.”
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 12, 2014
“The rottenest piece of land there is,” said Mick Elbert, a local car dealer who served on the golf association board.
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2011
Made from the juiciest of rotten apples, the rottenest of juicy maggots, and bits of skin and rags that fell into the barrel.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 22, 2010
“I got three of them. The rottenest eggs in Sassafras Springs.”
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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