rotten
Example Sentences
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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
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The wooden bridge is more askew, rottener than I remember.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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"And it's rottener of you to go talking to another woman about your wife."
From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert
"We should feel rottener beasts," said Frances, "if we stood in your way."
From The Tree of Heaven by Sinclair, May
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