[ US /ˈɹɑtən/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈɒtən/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having decayed or disintegrated; usually implies foulness
    dead and rotten in his grave
  2. damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless
    rotten floor boards
    a decayed foundation
    rotted beams
  3. very bad
    it's a stinking world
    a lousy play
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How To Use rotten In A Sentence

  • Elsewhere during the Hangover technology beanfeast, we understand that HP's own demo of Bluetooth was similarly rotten.
  • He had the most disgusting rotten teeth and horn rim glasses with milk bottle lenses.
  • As the passage continues there is a section of rotten flooring supported on dubious stemples just above head height.
  • I seldom say a harsh word to any one, but I was not master of myself then, and I spoke right out and called him an anisodactylous plesiosaurian conchyliaceous Ornithorhyneus, and rotten to the heart with holophotal subterranean extemporaneousness. Mark Twain`s speeches; with an introduction by William Dean Howells.
  • It was before we learnt once and for all that the financial edifice erected over the past two decades was rotten at the core. Times, Sunday Times
  • The fallen tree had been moldy and rotten, the smell strong and unpleasant enough to deter most burrowing animals that would normally have occupied the space.
  • Yet, it is its foul odor, often described as the reek of rotten eggs or hydrogen sulfide, that puts the "skunk" into the creature's name. Valdosta Daily Times Homepage
  • The source of the trouble lies to the north, where it spews its venom throughout the Great Kingdom, breeding dissension as rotten meat breeds maggots.
  • [ Jefferies'Voice ] because you want to shove your rotten cock up her juicy ass.
  • The normal human desire to rid one's self of a tormenting secret, to "exteriorize one's rottenness," finds satisfaction on an exalted plane in confession to God, or to his appointed ministers. Human Traits and their Social Significance
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