Example Sentences

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And Mama always invited Marilyn Monroe, too, because Mama was very adamant about how rottenly people treated Marilyn.

From Time Magazine Archive

The army and courts were proudly, rottenly impregnable.

From Time Magazine Archive

So far as hiding one's intentions, it's a most rottenly immoral game.

From Ruggles of Red Gap by Wilson, Harry Leon

I don't know how to put it into words; but I had a feeling of being up against something that was rottenly dangerous.

From Carnacki, the Ghost Finder by Hodgson, William Hope

No, really nothing mattered; really, the whole world was a sickening, stodgy business, rottenly managed....

From The Later Life by Couperus, Louis