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

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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
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.
The plants grow usually on the underside of rotten wood or bark, and then the upper side of the cap lies against the wood, and is said to be resupinate. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
A musty aroma of hunter's stew filled her nostrils, and the sour smell of soggy, rotten straw was almost unbearable all of a sudden.
The air was green with the stench of fetid and rotten flesh.
Her very moral fiber was rotten to the core.
But as she was going to her room that night, Fräulein Rottenmeier waylaid her, and drawing her into her own, gave her strict injunctions as to how she was to address Frau Sesemann when she arrived; on no account was she to call her "grandmamma," but always to say "madam" to her. Heidi
I'd patiently explain that the story was about a rotten man who turns good; ergo, we had to establish his rottenness at the beginning.
When first published, they must have had the effect of a drill pushed into a rotten tooth. Times, Sunday Times
I do however go out and get blitzed far too often, and wake up the next day feeling rotten having spent a lot of money!
A government cloaked and soaked in secrecy swiftly becomes rotten and corrupt. Times, Sunday Times
Rotten crowns should also be dug out. Times, Sunday Times
For the doyen of older press historians, older newspapers were like boroughs: rotten.
There is a rotten to the core subculture of coin dealers close to these guys who truly believe that it is their right to doctor, recolor, or do whatever they please to coins for a living. Commentary: Thoughts on the PCGS Lawsuit Against Coin Doctors : Coin Collecting News
Police found the fridge and oven stuffed with rotten food. The Sun
The red kind is that ufed in medicine, qnder the name cf Armcniiin bole; an indurated kind of Chap. ij,3 Lapis Lazuliy Rotten Stoncy &? The Economy of Nature Explained and Illustrated: On the Principles of Modern Philosophy. By G ...
Viro heard a slither, and a hiss, and looked above; from the rafters, a furred snake hung, its tail coiled upon a rotten wooded sign, the whitish paint flecked and gone.
You may be in devilish fine form to-day, but your throat is rotten. The Water Baby
I am sick of my mom telling me how rotten I am and sick of the courts ordering me to places like this.
Like so many failed expeditions before them, Sir John and his men would be fleeing for their lives, dragging longboats and whalers and hastily clabbered-together sledges across the rotten ice, praying for open leads and then cursing them when the sledges fell through the ice and the contrary winds blew the heavy boats back on the pack ice, leads that meant days and nights of rowing for the starving men. The Terror
We reject green and rotten apples; only the ripe apple is good.
There is a farm on a neck of land belonging to this town (Marblehead, Mass.), which has peculiar advantages for collecting sea kelp and sea moss, and these manures are there used most liberally, particularly in the cultivation of cabbage, from eight to twelve cords of rotten kelp, which is stronger than barn manure, and more suitable food for cabbage, being used to the acre. Cabbages and Cauliflowers: How to Grow Them A Practical Treatise, Giving Full Details On Every Point, Including Keeping And Marketing The Crop
It was the most rotten of rotten boroughs, a place where the corrupt, the fraudulent and the freeloaders prospered.
In the good old days before footballers could do no wrong they would have been greeted with a shower of rotten fruit and tomatoes. The Sun
The assumption is that we need professional help to rid our rotten bodies of all the poisons and harmful chemicals accumulated during the season of overindulgence.
It would be a stone-hearted soul who would not feel for him for the rotten press his private life and family has drawn since he went to Spain.
When given a choice between beer and pyridine – the smell of rotten eggs – children of mothers who drink to relieve tension and worry choose pyridine as smelling better. Archive 2008-06-01
The turtle waddled down the bank of the slough, out onto a rotten railroad tie through an obstacle course of brambles and beer cans, and, to my surprise, vanished with a wet slap, proving that this water was still alive.
To be locked up with one safe-blower is enough, and now you've stuck three murderers into this rotten hole. The Madness of May
The smell of the rotten meat was enough!
You can look at this as rotten luck. Times, Sunday Times
It stood near the window; its thick trunk, barkless, with a rotten heart, prevented the light from entering the room; the bent, black branches, devoid of leaves, stretched themselves mournfully and helplessly in the air, and shaking to and fro, they creaked softly, plaintively. The Man Who Was Afraid
Had a letter from Georgie today & she's had a rotten spin for two months - no doubt you've heard all about it by now.
The problem is jet stream winds at high altitude taking a southerly track, bringing rotten conditions on both sides of the Atlantic. Times, Sunday Times
However, it was the prologue to the England game which was most instructive about the rottenness of the state.
Emerging market bonds are also on a turmoil tenterhook; when the apple cart gets upset, I want to look at ways of owning the next cart, rather than trying to collect the rotten apples. MarketWatch.com - Top Stories
He watches carefully where he treads so as to avoid some of the bigger holes and gaps between the half-rotten floorboards.
I didn't stop to think that I was being pretty rotten myself.
She looked at him in distaste, smelling the rotten stench of vomit, and sure enough, he'd puked on the floor.
It's rotten having to wash in salt water as the soap won't lather in the slightest although it is supposed to be salt water soap.
She was embarrassed suddenly by the ripe-rotten smell of blue statice, which Madda liked to decorate the house with because the flowers “died so beautifully.” Slice Of Cherry
We aren't like the local autocrats, hypocritical and thieving to their rotten cores.
As a precaution, I had scented toilet paper stuffed up my nose, but the bouquet still came on like a rotten gauntlet across the snout.
The series received rotten reviews, then good ones, and the viewing figures blossomed.
Decomposition of urine containing cystine or pus will have the odor of rotten eggs.
The mega-pubco system is rotten. Times, Sunday Times
The centre was completely rotten and the inner wood little more than mush.
She is a beautiful maiden seen from one side and a rotten corpse from the other, may we all get to face the good side of Her Face. Is jesus your lord and savior?
And he added:'There is something rotten at the heart. The Sun
[ Jefferies'Voice ] because you want to shove your rotten cock up her juicy ass.
For older stains use a paste of rottenstone, baking soda or cigarette ashes mixed with mineral oil, linseed oil, or lemon oil.
But people instinctively sense that there is something essentially rotten with City and executive pay. Times, Sunday Times
Nine years ago I bought a cabin cruiser, but no one had discovered one side was rotten. Times, Sunday Times
The seven voters of Old Sarum were allowed to return two members of Parliament, because this place, -- once a Roman fort, and afterwards a sheepwalk, -- many generations before, at the early casting of the House of Commons, had been entitled to this representation; but the argument for State Rights assumes that all these rights may be lodged in voters as few in number as ever controlled a rotten borough of The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863
No rose will make a rotten hotel smell sweeter. Times, Sunday Times
Still, it is a pity to see so fair a maid cast like rotten bait upon the waters to hook this troutlet of a yeoman. Eric Brighteyes
ging gang goolie" - style ditties lead singer Johnny Rotten and doomed bassist Sid Vicious enjoyed when they were in the Scouts. TheSpoof.com : Spoof News : Front Page
On the other side is an adze for chopping steps and clearing rotten ice for screws.
There he learns the true meaning of being spoiled rotten.
We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood. Amy Tan
Asparagus contains a sulphur containing compound called mercaptan, and some individuals have an enzyme that quickly breaks down the mercaptan into byproducts which are also found in rotten eggs, skunk spray, onions and garlic.
Why don't you let me spoil you rotten? The Sun
The rotten apple injuries its neighbours.
To his horror he saw that the thatch was aflame, the rotten pillars were catching fire one by one, and the rafters were burning like tinder. The Art of the Story-Teller
A voting process so rotten that the stench will linger for decades. Times, Sunday Times
It was rotten and decayed and completely disintegrated on impact.
In general, funds with poor long-term past performance tend to have rotten future performance.
And they are doing it in an era that has seen dot-coms dropping from the Internet tree like rotten apples.
It is quite a remarkable thing for a novelist to name the canker that makes for human rottenness, especially since James does it with such fine literary craft and such acute theological discernment.
The pond was choked with rotten leaves.
My husband thought he could strip the rotten shingles off the steep roof himself.
There was no chance of a clean getaway, rotten luck.
The smell is distinctive, too: chemicals and rotten eggs, the hydrogen sulphides produced by processing coal.
Why his masculine whore, now the rotten diseases of the south, the guts griping ruptures: loades a gravell in the back, lethergies, could palsies, rawe eies, durtrotte [n] livers, whissing lungs, bladders full of impostume. The Historie of Troylus and Cresseida (1609 Edition)
I guess I get it: We must hold the General to a much higher standard of conduct, discretion, valor, service, and duty than his rotten, lying C-in-C. Loose lips: the McChrystal article
My suspicion is that the java fern, which has nearly taken over the entire tank, may have been hiding bits of detrius -- food, waste, rotten eggs (from the multiple spawnings of the minnows), and any number of other ugliness. Day in the Life of an Idiot
As the name suggests, the area is rich in sulphur and that means it smells pretty pungent - think rotten eggs. The Sun
He has some rotten apples in that dressing room though. The Sun
In Zola's L'Argent, the rise and fall of a bank provides a metaphor for the rottenness of Louis Napoleon's Second Empire.
ÂSome stalwart grad student could write quite a paper on the undertones and resonances of a paragraph like this one: "Through British veins runs the poisonous fake idealism of "human rights" and "sensitivity," of happy-clappy multicultural groveling and sick, weak, deracinated moral universalism -- the rotten fruit of a debased, sentimentalized Christianity. Richard (RJ) Eskow: England's Ashes - America's Future?
The castigatory sermon which Fräulein Rottenmeier had held in reserve for Heidi was put off till the following day, as she felt too exhausted now after all the emotions she had gone through of irritation, anger, and fright, of which Heidi had unconsciously been the cause. Heidi
Ever since he's been dodging bricks, stones, and rotten tomatoes from the unco guid. A Little Rock'n'Roll with our Elevenses
The happiness of the saints is the envy of the wicked, and that envy is the rottenness of their bones. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
In this age of rotten service, crummy products and seething attitudes, you have accidentally stumbled onto a solution to those woes.
The smell of the rotten meat was enough!
Man has been building bridges since the first rotten tree fell across a stream and set in motion the Neanderthal brain cells.
It looked like the cover of an interiors magazine, but it must block out the light something rotten. Times, Sunday Times
I personally think it's a rotten idea.
They flitted around the pit in agitated circles, their burring wings stirring up the rotten-egg stench. Etched in Bone
He had the most disgusting rotten teeth and horn rim glasses with milk bottle lenses.
Using rottenstone will produce the finest mirror-like finish.
You're absolutely, indisputably rotten to the bone!
Over the last decade, Melhuish's team has produced a string of bots powered by sugar, rotten apples, or dead flies.
It's like someone threw a rotten egg into a bottle of spoiled milk and skunky beer.
The pear is rotten to the core.
The smell outside this building is overwhelming — like rotten eggs.
One rotten apple spoils the whole barrel.
The short divide beyond the far bank of the Sirr is strewn with glittering mica-schist that takes the forms of tree-trunks and rotten wood; and with dark purple-blue fragments of clay-slate looking as if they had been worked. The Land of Midian
The smell outside this building is overwhelming — like rotten eggs.
One rotten apple spoils the whole barrel.
They were utterly appalling with their rotten or missing teeth, tangled, matted hair, and yellowing scurvy eyes.
A really rotten book tends to cancel out the less rotten ones that went before. The Times Literary Supplement
Those exposed to the whiff of rotten eggs had the scariest. The Sun
It is green, slimy and smells of rotten eggs. Times, Sunday Times
We're told that the folks from here are evil, but we never see them do anything very rotten.
By the way, I also grew out of throwing rotten duck eggs at noisy bikers.
And none of this sadly goes to the heart of the rotten culture in Haringey which is secretive, arrogant, rank-closing and abuses power. Baby P: The incompetence of Haringey Council was always the story
There is something rotten and stinking in our universities. The Sun
Few raise their voices to remember the thousands who suffered at the hands of the morally rotten medics who worked for the Imperial Army war effort.
She's the doc's daughter, and spoiled rotten from what I've heard. ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
She replaced the rotten sash windows and replaced the heating, wiring and plumbing. Times, Sunday Times
No one in this movie is inherently evil; they are products of a system that is rotten to the core.
The question may be asked whether there was something rotten in the state of France.
Allow the fruit to remain on the plant until fully mature (and a bit overripe, but not rotten).
I don't care about rotten window frames, leaky roof tiles, the magnolia paint in the hall, the dirty lino in the kitchen.
We were larking around with a bout of on-street wrestling when I noticed a pile of rotten vegetables on a deserted stall.
He was the favorite, and his mother spoiled him rotten.
The man's morals are rotten to the core.
Before the cowdung can be brought to the farm, it must be rotten. 5.1 Meaning and objectives of a permanent farming system
We all knew Von Rotten could be theatric to the point of annoyance, but this was pushing it. The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 15
Some brat even threw a rotten apple core at me and sped away in his blasted tricycle contraption before I could catch him.
The loose thread in this rotten tapestry is Vechey.
Keep in mind that the objects are not rotten or smelly or discolored.
A voting process so rotten that the stench will linger for decades. Times, Sunday Times
She was suddenly keenly aware off all the little pricks on her skin, where mosquitoes, the rotten little bloodsuckers, were feasting on her exposed flesh.
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 Ornithorhyncus, and rotten to the heart with holoaophotal subterranean extemporaneousness. Mark Twain's Speeches
There are fumaroles to gawp at too — the vents through which rotten egg-smelling gasses hiss. The Sun
Keep in mind that the objects are not rotten or smelly or discolored.
She insists that the whole corporate system is rotten and even murkier crimes are committed in the financial world every day.
Of course there's sanding between coats and a final rub out with pumice or rottenstone to give an even ‘dead’ surface.
A shower stall was rotten. The Sun
And then I plainly saw, both with wonder and delight that the joint of meat did, in some places, shine like rotten wood or stinking fish.
The empty ornamental pond was choked with rotten leaves, starlings blew about the place like avian litter.
I can't wait to get out of this dirty, rotten place.
The teenage pyromaniacs experimented with different fuel sources, different sorts of fats (some very smelly) and oils, moss, dry rotten wood and home baked tinder using a cotton handkerchief.
He is a willing horse but he always seems to get the rotten jobs.
Her own mother, bringing two children up single-handed after the war after her second husband was killed in the fighting, had a ‘rotten, rough time’.
It makes me sick of myself, to make such a fash and bobbery over a rotten end of an old nursery yarn, not worth spitting on when done. Vailima Letters
There were about ten of them, varying in age and height, but all with the same dark eyes and dirty faces, rotten teeth and tearful, pleading voices.
It must be recent and up to date so that your target readers may not find it passé and rotten.
He then used a series of rotten excuses in a doomed attempt to avoid a red card. Times, Sunday Times
Eyes the color of rotten walnuts brooded under a browridge that resembled a fungus growing out of tree bark. The Sea of Trolls
Reviews for W. are all over the board (58% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes), but I suspect that marketing the movie as light and satirical as opposed to dark and derisive is very smart. Box Office Tracking: Max Payne Targets $20M | /Film
One bronze is a rotten return for ten entrants from the birthplace of Queensberry Rules.
Last one there's a rotten egg, and as if being a moldy oospore weren't enough, they'll also miss out on a potentially rich stream of revenue from the portable video-palooza. Subsidiary Of Malone's Liberty Premieres Video Service
But Dash was the true love of her life and she spoilt him rotten.
My German's pretty rotten, but I quite liked hearing Tom Waits standards like "Romeo Verliert Bluat" (Romeo is Bleeding) and "Es Is Vorbei" (Ruby's Eyes) sung in soulful Austrian German. Boing Boing: July 4, 2004 - July 10, 2004 Archives
`The beds up there are damp and probably rotten and we haven't enough bed linen anyway. THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
She, again, proves her "contrariness" in the Bloomberg interview, by outing Treasury Secretary Geithner's rotten math that tries to convince subtraction takes nothing from a sum. Who Is Elizabeth Warren, and Why Doesn't Corporate Government Care?
It was as though the impact of what she said, the sheer rotten falsity of it, had lifted me out of my seat like a powerful ramrod. THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
The sands of the desert gave way to a grass-land, though the grass had a rotten look to it, and was slippery to walk on.
More than 200 known viruses and other pathogens can cause the suite of symptoms known as “influenza-like illness”; respiratory syncytial virus, bocavirus, coronavirus, and rhinovirus are just a few of the bugs that can make a person feel rotten. Does the Vaccine Matter?
What rotten luck it had to happen now!
Mothers were supposed to harass you until you had your own children, after which they spoiled your children rotten.
Henriette grew to rival her mother's beauty, but was eventually spoiled quite rotten by the fact that she was the only girl in the family.
The smell is distinctive, too: chemicals and rotten eggs, the hydrogen sulphides produced by processing coal.
There are plenty of rotten American films that had a great political impact.
In this case, Acheson said one rotten apple would infect the whole barrel.
But this happens none the less with the birds of prey though they lay few eggs, for often one of the two becomes rotten, and the third practically always, for being of a hot nature they make the moisture in the eggs to overboil so to say. On the Generation of Animals
The fruit is starting to go rotten.
Maybe about how it takes the spinner's motivations and turns the fiber into either trash or treasure: greed spinning silk into rusty wire slubbed with rotten straw, laziness spinning wool into a beautiful but useless cobweb thread that disintigrates when touched, vengefulness turning flax into coarse rope no matter how delicately spun, love turning nettles into the smoothest silken cord, selflessness making the spinner's own hair into the finest silver-wrapped silk. Spinning with glass.
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While some people were busy fighting and dying, war profiteers made fortunes selling rotten food, unserviceable uniforms and non-working weapons.
And in 1996 when Paddy said that Parliament had become "A rotten mess.a dishevelled, disfigured old corpse of what was once called the Mother of Parliaments. The Economist: Daily news and views
If the morals of mankind have not contracted an extraordinary degree of depravity, within these thirty years, then must I be infected with the common vice of old men, difficilis, querulus, laudator temporis acti; or, which is more probable, the impetuous pursuits and avocations of youth have formerly hindered me from observing those rotten parts of human nature, which now appear so offensively to my observation. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
There was nothing I could do but put a brave face on it and go after them, but now my rheumatics are playing up something rotten and my truss is all rusty.
The girls were all in high school and were spoiled rotten, always showing off their latest buys at the mall, totally obsessed with themselves.
Shame on the whole rotten lot of them. The Sun
Seemingly unconcerned by his lack of recognition, Mr Rotten took security guards to task over the expulsion order, before declaring the whole thing was ‘boring anyway’ and sloping off.
The stink of the rotten fish turned my stomach.
The waters were often sulphurous and smelt rather badly of rotten eggs.
Ice slides are nothing to them, and when you fall, as you inevitably must, because all the things you grab hold of are either rotten, or as brittle as Salviati glass-ware vases, you hurt yourself in no end of places, on those aforesaid cut amomum stumps. Travels in West Africa
Rotten made it clear that there was another kind of fun that could be had, a forbidden fun that was riskier and more dangerous because it aggressively put the lie to the self-congratulatory lassitude of the 1970s.
Rotten boroughs thrived (and were brilliantly lampooned in Blackadder. Times, Sunday Times
My encounter with the gorilla in the pit angered me not just because of the badmouthing but because of his rotten timing.
She must have caught her heel and tripped, just rotten bad luck.
Conan had a flash of foreboding that, with the help of his arcane arts, this frail-looking man could snap even the Cimmerian's bullneck like a rotten stick. Conan the Wanderer
The make-up people excelled themselves with lots of dirty fingernails and a welter of warts, wens and rotten corpses.
This is not an action of the Resistance, but cold-blooded murder in the service of rotten political objectives.
For others, he symbolises all that is rotten within Sri Lankan cricket politics: a man driven by egoism and self-interest.
For them, the West was crass, materialistic and, of course, morally rotten.
We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood. Amy Tan
Turgenev had wrotten a novel, named by Cabbage Soup: A poor peasant widow, but her only son died.
Rotten as a bad apple, and ready for the bulldozers of history.
Certainly, even if Harrington's request cannot obtain satisfies, but team's relations also further worsen, he easily "will not suspend rottenly ", in Warrior's each day of he endeavor as always.
He's a rotten excuse for a lawyer. Why on earth did you hire him?
boards rotten through and through
AS the outlet pipe of well F1 is exposed, it has completed rotten, and lost the drainage function, so we have to rebuilt the downstream offtake.
For a glassy finish, use pumice or rottenstone (decomposed limestone).
Americans may remember auto manufacturer, which vanished from the U.S. market in 1987, for poor quality and rotten reliability.
The lord's voice wheezed out of him, like the wind being squeezed from a pair of rotten bellows. STARDUST

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