rotten
Example Sentences
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Sure, it’s easy to loathe New England fans, who are spoiled rotten after six Super Bowls, and need another trophy in the way a cat needs sunglasses.
Next, recognize some of the annoying parts of your job are out of your control—like a rotten boss—and stop fighting against it.
From Barron's
He learned to patch up injured men in below-deck sea cabins, where gangrene turned a wound black and rotten.
“You knowhow we sometimes get an egg good and rotten so it makes a big stink?”
From Literature
“But they go rotten very quickly once you pick them, so people make them into wine, or jam. I’ve never had them fresh.”
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
