ADJ.
bad, fancy, inside, inside, orange, ripe, soon
VERB + ROTTEN
appears, box, building, coined, kid, smell, smells, sort
ROTTEN + NOUN
apple, apples, heart, meat
PREP.
in, out
ADV.
goodly
adj
Of perishable items, overridden with bacteria and other infectious agents.
If you leave a bin unattended for a few weeks, the rubbish inside will turn rotten.
Antonio: Mark you this, Bassanio, / The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. / An evil soul producing holy witness / Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, / A goodly apple rotten at the heart. / O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
In a state of decay.
The floors were damaged and the walls were rotten.
His mouth stank and his teeth were rotten.
Cruel, mean or immoral.
That man is a rotten father.
This rotten policy will create more injustice in this country.
Bad or terrible.
Why is the weather always rotten in this city?
It was a rotten idea to take the boat out today.
Of stone or rock, crumbling or friable; in a loose or disintegrated state.
The quartz specimens were sometimes blue, hard-looking stone, or rotten quartz largely impregnated with iron, in both cases carrying bright glittering nodules of gold.
adv
To an extreme degree.
That kid is spoilt rotten.
The girls fancy him something rotten.
Something is not right, seriously amiss, especially when leading to suspicion of motive.
If the authorities knew about the problems and chose not to prevent them, then clearly something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
A bad person, especially one who has a corrupting influence on others.
Near-synonym: bad egg
There is a bad person in any group.
A person who is the latest, the last, or the slowest in a group to arrive somewhere or to perform a certain task.
Last one there is a rotten egg!
To overindulge someone, especially when it results in making them selfish and demanding.
Naylonfred had spoiled them rotten, making them selfish and demanding.
If you leave a bin unattended for a few weeks, the rubbish inside will turn rotten.
WiktionaryAntonio: Mark you this, Bassanio, / The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. / An evil soul producing holy witness / Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, / A goodly apple rotten at the heart.
WiktionaryThe floors were damaged and the walls were rotten.
WiktionaryThat kid is spoilt rotten.
WiktionaryThe girls fancy him something rotten.
Wiktionary"It's old man Challenger's show and we are here by his good will, so it would be rotten bad form if we didn't follow his instructions to the letter."
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