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"It's always been a rotten apple, not a rotten barrel," she said.

From BBC

God knows, there are enough rotten policies, not to speak of corruption and mendacity, to keep everyone busy, and a mass movement does need to be widely inclusive.

From Salon

"I said to Tony 'don't play me for the rest of the week'. I had a rotten week and I didn't feel part of it. It's why I stayed in my room for the celebrations."

From BBC

Expensive furniture has been broken or thrown out of the window, fancy decorations ripped out, every page of a Quran torn, and it stinks of rotten leftover food.

From BBC

Under cover of night, trucks have been regularly dumping rotten produce in an industrial neighborhood in downtown Los Angeles.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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