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The air quality management district said it has received more than 4,900 odor complaints related to the Lineage warehouse “reporting persistent rotten, sour and garbage-like odors.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 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

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

Traynor listened patiently to Dasch, who emphasized that he was supplying information to the FBI as a means toward that end—to fight against Hitler and his "rotten gangsters."

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

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

England wasn't a bit rotten—or, at least, no rottener than she ever was, only the rottenness was all dragged into the limelight.

From There was a King in Egypt by Norma Lorimer

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

“It was the rottenest clinch they ever had in a movie,” Ms. Channing says after describing their awkward practice session.

From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2012

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