rottenness

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rot·ten

(rŏt′n)

adj. rot·ten·er, rot·ten·est

1. Being in a state of putrefaction or decay; decomposed.

2. Having a foul odor resulting from or suggestive of decay; putrid.

3. Made weak or unsound by rot: rotten floorboards.

4. Morally corrupt or despicable: She's rotten to the core.

5. Very bad; wretched: rotten weather.

adv.

To a very great degree: The child is spoiled rotten.

[Middle English roten, from Old Norse rotinn.]

rot′ten·ly adv.

rot′ten·ness n.

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Noun	1.	rottenness - in a state of progressive putrefaction putrescence, putridness, corruption putrefaction, rot - a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor
	2.	rottenness - the quality of rotting and becoming putrid putrescence unwholesomeness, morbidness, morbidity - the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you

rottenness

noun

The condition of being decayed:

breakdown, decay, decomposition, deterioration, disintegration, putrefaction, putrescence, putridness, rot, spoilage.

Translations

عَفَن، تَعَفُّن

shnilost

råddenskab

Fäule

pourriture

rothadtság

rotnun

putrefazione

råttenskap

prehnitosťzhnitosť

çürüklük

腐败

rottenness

[ˈrɒtnnɪs] N → podredumbre f (fig) → corrupción f

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rottenness

n (of vegetation, egg, fruit, tooth) → Faulheit f; (of wood) → Morschheit f, → Faulheit f; (fig: = corruptness) → Korruptheit f, → Verdorbenheit f

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rot

(rot) – past tense, past participle ˈrotted – verb

to make or become bad or decayed. The fruit is rotting on the ground; Water rots wood.

noun

1. decay. The floorboards are affected by rot.

2. nonsense. Don't talk rot!

ˈrotten adjective

1. (of meat, fruit etc) having gone bad; decayed. rotten vegetables.

2. bad; mean. What rotten luck!; It was a rotten thing to do.

ˈrottenness noun

ˈrotter noun

a mean, bad person. an absolute rotter.

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What strikes one in it is that it is a phenomenon to the best of my knowledge--and you know what my knowledge is--unprecedented and unique in the history of mankind; the arrival of a nation at an ultimate stage of evolution without having passed through the mediate one; the passage of the fruit, in other words, from crudity to rottenness, without the interposition of a period of useful (and ornamental) ripeness.

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Would that a storm came and shook all this rottenness and worm-eatenness from the tree!

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After contemplating for a time the rottenness of the world, he came back to the point from which he had started.

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Here you shall lie alone and in darkness with the carcass of your accomplice festering in its rottenness by your side, until crazed by loneliness and hunger you feed upon the crawling maggots that were once a man."

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That I got them off, closed with her, threw her down, and got them over her; that I dragged the great cloth from the table for the same purpose, and with it dragged down the heap of rottenness in the midst, and all the ugly things that sheltered there; that we were on the ground struggling like desperate enemies, and that the closer I covered her, the more wildly she shrieked and tried to free herself; that this occurred I knew through the result, but not through anything I felt, or thought, or knew I did.

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You go against rottenness, and there is nothing more thoroughly rotten than making people believe that society can be cured by a political hocus-pocus."

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After Jurgis had been there awhile he would know that the plants were simply honeycombed with rottenness of that sort--the bosses grafted off the men, and they grafted off each other; and some day the superintendent would find out about the boss, and then he would graft off the boss.

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Them trees just stand up natural an' strong an' clean like young boys their first time in the ring before they've learned its rottenness an' how to double-cross an' lay down to the bettin' odds an' the fightfans.

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Out of the rottenness of these things, there has sprung up in Boston a sect of philosophers known as Transcendentalists.

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The very rats, which here and there lay putrefying in its rottenness, were hideous with famine.

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He tells us that they died suddenly and violently and in madness; but nothing can exceed the bitter mockery with which he records the loathsome disease, and "death by rottenness," of the fierce and cruel governor.

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Its panelled rooms, discoloured with the dirt and smoke of a hundred years, I dare say; its decaying floors and staircase; the squeaking and scuffling of the old grey rats down in the cellars; and the dirt and rottenness of the place; are things, not of many years ago, in my mind, but of the present instant.