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

"Well, you know, Chevalier is rottenly bad," replied Roger, without hesitation.

From A Mummer's Tale by Roche, Charles E.

"I consider you treated Baxter rottenly," he said another time.

From Sons and Lovers by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

“Because it’s all so rottenly ignoble,” he said, without looking at me.

From The Prairie Mother by Becher, Arthur E.