Something is rotten in the state of Denmark

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Definition of Something is rotten in the state of Denmark

A line from the play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare. An officer of the palace guard says this after the ghost of the dead king appears, walking over the palace walls.

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“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark” is used to describe corruption or a situation in which something is wrong.

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How to use Something is rotten in the state of Denmark in a sentence

Something like fluoride, which is too small for normal filters, yanks away that feeling of agency.
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Citizens, perhaps, need to feel like they can communicate something to science.
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Dental leaders barnstormed the state, and cities began to fluoridate.
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France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.
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But on Thursday Boxer triggered a Golden State political earthquake, announcing that she would not seek a fifth term in 2016.
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He remembered something—the cherished pose of being a man plunged fathoms-deep in business.
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There seems something in that also which I could spare only very reluctantly from a new Bible in the world.
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Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
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There is, perhaps, in this childish suffering often something more than the sense of being homeless and outcast.
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If we can free this State of Yankees, we will accomplish more than your armies down south have.
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