Word Finder - rotten

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Of perishable items, overridden with bacteria and other infectious agents.

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If you leave a bin unattended for a few weeks, the rubbish inside will turn rotten.

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In a state of decay.

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His mouth stank and his teeth were rotten.

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Cruel, mean or immoral.

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That man is a rotten father.

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Bad or terrible.

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It was a rotten idea to take the boat out today.

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To an extreme degree.

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That kid is spoilt rotten.

You've spoiled me rotten, you know.

There are rotten apples in every barrel I suppose.

Most were rotten to the core, jaded or desperate, because that's the way he liked them.

At the assault of Swiatoslav of Kiev the rotten fabric crumbled into dust.

And the leaders of the Constituent who came first on the stage, and hoped to make a revolution with rose-water, and hardly realized any more than Burke did how rotten was the structure which they had undertaken to build up, almost deserved his contempt, even if, as is certainly true, they did not deserve his indignation.

You're parents have spoiled you rotten with fine clothes and a cushion job.

These are at first yellowish in colour and fleshy; but as they grow older they become rotten and assume a brown or black colour.

It is probable that important consequences of these actions result from the presence of nitrifying bacteria in rotten stone, FIG.

I realize that the banana I am eating is completely rotten.

Calderwood Castle on Rotten Calder Water, near High Blantyre, is situated amid picturesque scenery.

The rotten, lying bastard.

Oh, he got worms out of rotten logs since the ground froze, and so he caught them.

But once more Bolingbroke's "fortune turned rotten at the very moment it grew ripe," 4 and his projects and hopes were ruined by the king's death in June.

The house, which had been left to the grand-duke for the nation, was then found to be so structurally rotten that the interior had to be largely reconstructed.

It burns with a blue flame when heated in the air or in oxygen, at the same time giving a characteristic smell of rotten horseradish, a reaction which serves for the recognition of the element.

On the contrary he was in continual danger, and was striving with all the resources of a ready and untiring mind to rebuild foundations that were absolutely rotten.

As Burke had wished the British parliament to be supreme over the colonies, in confidence that this supremacy would not be abused, so he wished the great landowning connection resting on the rotten boroughs to ruie over the unrepresented people, in confidence that this power would not be abused.

Johnny Rotten weren't half right when he said ' never trust a hippy ' .

The other doorway has a rotten lintel over the door.

Reaching the hotel across slippery logs and rotten planking was reminiscent of the Krypton Factor, particularly carrying all our baggage.

A couple had started to go rotten - thanks slugs.

The almost slavish adherence to the idea that presentation is paramount is like applying gloss paint to rotten woodwork.

Malcolm pointed to some rotten stumps with holes in, " a good example of Weka work " he muttered.

In working amber, it is turned on the lathe and polished with whitening and water or with rotten stone and oil, the final lustre being given by friction with flannel.

There is something rotten in the state of Britain.

The maximum hardness is from 2.5 to 3 in anthracite and hard bituminous coals, but considerably less in lignites, which are nearly as soft as rotten wood.

A few rotten apples had effectively contaminated the whole barrel.

Allowing air into the silage bale will result in part or all of that bale going rotten.

Humans can smell hydrogen sulfide gas, the smell of rotten cabbage, in the parts per trillion range.

The roof joists were rotten; the first floor walls were down to the window ledges.

The sliding door has had the exterior plywood, which was rotten removed.

Low Priority Paint steel roof purlins, replace rotten timbers within the purlin angle sections.

Presented with some pretty rotten adult examples, the need for good dialog with young people is important.

It turned out to be thoroughly rotten, probably because the mast step had been steeped in rainwater for the last six years.

Come back quot really really rotten remember some insurers.

Considerable numbers of beetle and fly species associated with rather rotten rubbish and waste were recovered from Roman deposits at One Poultry.

They're so rotten you could probably flick them and they'd break.

He spent the rest of the day in our control center being spoilt rotten.

Alfie feels rotten that he kept him in the dark about her illness.

We know how and why most revolutions turn rotten.

Alf & Jill Oxford removed the wooden walkway immediately outside the S & T, which had become quite rotten in places.

The staircase by now was quite derelict with boards steps missing and where they were present, they looked very rotten.

This keeps this section in tip top condition with no rotten sleepers.

It's hard to understand him sometimes and he always stinks like rotten cheese.

There was me standing on a rotten wooden platform 20 ft above a concrete floor sweeping up bird crap and really stinking wet grain.

With such a shallow snowpack, and low temperatures, the off piste was getting pretty sugary and rotten.

You weren't half a rotten swine, Captain, sending him in there with that gorilla alone?

On her way she put the teapot on the end of a rotten old table in the yard.

She had spoilt the little turds rotten then tried to get all tough on them.

I suspect some of them, because of a curious smell of rotten wood which I can detect through other odors.