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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

"Apple built its reputation by paying close attention to the smallest details. This lawsuit does the opposite," OpenAI's lawyers say in their filing, which continues to describe Apple's complaint as "rotten to its core."

From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026

Moldy, bruised and rotten fruits and vegetables should also be avoided.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

Glendale resident Trinity Shi, 42, witnessed three blooms at the Huntington in 2022 and 2023 and compared the smell to rotten fish: pungent, but not unbearable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

Too gloomy to guard his words, Ellsberg shot back, “Henry, there hasn’t been a rotten decision in this area for twenty years which wasn’t undertaken for very complicated reasons.”

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

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

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

"I'm dead sick of her,—there never was a rottener bargain going."

From In Strange Company A Story of Chili and the Southern Seas by Guy Newell Boothby

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