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Known for his quick wit and political stunts, Lycett told the BBC he asked Carr for advice on "how to spot a rotten little traitor like you".

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

“We had the smell of rotten eggs or rotten meat,” said George Khalatian, president of the Big Sky homeowners association in Simi Valley.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

Residents of Savannah, now a tourist mecca known for its moss-draped squares and antebellum architecture, tolerated the river pollution and dismissed the mill’s rotten odor as “the smell of money.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

"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

Hoping to catch Abel napping, the owl swept down from an old decayed tree—it seemed at home in rotten trees—but Abel had his spear at the ready the moment the owl reached him.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig

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

"He couldn't have stuck you in a rottener hole."

From The Three Sisters by May Sinclair

The stuff's getting rottener and rottener, don't you think?

From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Ben Hecht

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

Her name is Sally Jackson and she’s the best person in the world, which just proves my theory that the best people have the rottenest luck.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan