rotten
Example Sentences
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"I always thought it was a rotten idea."
From BBC
“My children are all decent people. I don’t have one rotten one, and I would like to think that they got some of that from me.”
From MarketWatch
Here, the Russian conscripts are either mean but brave or they just have rotten luck.
From Los Angeles Times
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.
By the time the homicidal aberration tears out of her like an angry insect from a rotten apple, Matty’s fate is already sealed.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
