rottenness

Example Sentences

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Mr O'Brien says the film team made the environment look broken down, heavily overgrown with weeds and undergrowth, and with "almost a sense of rottenness inherent in the fabric of the building".

From BBC • Oct. 30, 2025

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

Those revelations of rottenness that I mentioned before?

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2019

Despite Park’s anger—at the rottenness of North Korea, at his wife, at himself—he always carried himself with dignity, especially when it was time to eat.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden