rottenness

Example Sentences

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

From BBC • Aug. 16, 2023

Läckberg uses the third person in these chapters, distancing the reader from Faye just as she seems to distance herself from the rottenness at her life’s core.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2020

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

The house’s fundamental, supernatural rottenness comes across from the first minutes of the film, long before we know what’s wrong with it.

From The Verge • Mar. 24, 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