Example Sentences

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“Any amount of rottenness he wants to display is perfect for this character because he has no redeeming qualities at all,” he said in a 1980 interview.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2024

He said the "whole of this case indicates a very basic malaise and rottenness at the system".

From BBC • Aug. 16, 2023

In his memoirs, Hoover quoted Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon, chief architect of the laissez-faire 1920s policies, as saying, “Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate. Purge the rottenness out of the system.”

From Seattle Times • Jun. 19, 2020

The house’s fundamental, supernatural rottenness comes across from the first minutes of the film, long before we know what’s wrong with it.

From The Verge • Mar. 24, 2019

I felt they cut right to the heart of the matter, to the essential rottenness of the world.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt