rotten
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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
In the early 20th century, we industrialized nearly everything, but a great way to manufacture cars is a rotten way to shape souls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
The stench of rotten eggs and burning debris fills the air in Boxtown, a predominantly Black neighborhood in Memphis.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
Moldy, bruised and rotten fruits and vegetables should also be avoided.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
Ralph finally lost his temper and squeaked at the top of his voice, “Beat it, you rotten little rodents!”
From "Ralph S. Mouse" by Beverly Cleary
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
If there is one thing rottener than another in a pretty blighted world, one thing which gives a fellow the pip and reduces him to the condition of an absolute onion, it is hopeless love.
From The Adventures of Sally by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
If a light rig like that shakes the bricks loose, the old thing must be rottener than it looks!
From Sure Pop and the Safety Scouts by Roy Rutherford Bailey
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
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