dry-rot
Example Sentences
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He responds, animatedly for once, to the suggestion that Graham Greene, quizzed about his plots, would reply in the style of a solicitor or dry-rot inspector talking about a house.
From The Guardian • Aug. 14, 2010
In the U.S. the work of termites was long mistaken for that of fungi and dry-rot which usually follow their riddlings.
From Time Magazine Archive
As far as my reading has taken me, it seems to be the dry-rot of nations.
From The World Peril of 1910 by Griffith, George Chetwynd
More than all other factors this moral blight and spiritual dry-rot is what is the matter with Panama.
From Prowling about Panama by Miller, George A.
An economic dry-rot at the heart of a country is more terrible than excoriations on the surface.
From Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 by Graham, Stephen
