rottenness

Example Sentences

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“Any amount of rottenness he wants to display is perfect for this character because he has no redeeming qualities at all,” he said in a 1980 interview.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2024

He said the "whole of this case indicates a very basic malaise and rottenness at the system".

From BBC • Aug. 16, 2023

In his memoirs, Hoover quoted Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon, chief architect of the laissez-faire 1920s policies, as saying, “Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate. Purge the rottenness out of the system.”

From Seattle Times • Jun. 19, 2020

Those revelations of rottenness that I mentioned before?

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2019

Luminous these were too, beautiful and yet horrible of shape, like the demented forms in an uneasy dream; and they gave forth a faint sickening charnel-smell; an odour of rottenness filled the air.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien