rotten

Here, the Russian conscripts are either mean but brave or they just have rotten luck.

In this case, it’s a subplot about despondent self-deporting animals who resolve to flee Oz because their home has become hostile to their kind: “We can’t stay here. It’s become rotten,” says a bear.

The odor of rotten flesh clouds my nostrils.

She followed the woman’s gaze to the rotten potato in her own hand.

Lady Constance spit out the word “poor” as if it were the seed of a rotten grape.