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How to pronounce rotten in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms decayed, rotted
Derivation rottenness


rotten floor boards.
Type Words
Synonyms crappy, icky, lousy, shitty, stinking, stinky
Type Words
Derivation rottenness


dead and rotten in his grave.

Examples of rotten

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It literally stinks, reeking of rotten paper, like a leaky library in a monsoon.
From the techcrunch.com
With all that low-hanging fruit, we find ourselves stuck with this rotten apple.
From the battleland.blogs.time.com
He is a legacy Republican, spoiled rotten by privilege but smarter than he acts.
From the washingtonpost.com
It has been beaten by better teams at times and had rotten games at other times.
From the post-gazette.com
Casinos are like an apple that is shiny on the outside and rotten on the inside.
From the news.enquirer.com
Rotten weather was considered an important factor in last year's low attendance.
From the toledoblade.com
Oddly enough, most of the rotten logs are the ones added in the 1970 renovation.
From the thestate.com
But the fact is that Mali's ruling regime is by all accounts rotten to the core.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
Eventually, the festival ends and you can eat the yams that have not rotten yet.
From the scienceblogs.com
More examples
  • Icky: very bad; "a lousy play"; "it's a stinking world"
  • Decayed: damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless; "rotten floor boards"; "rotted beams"; "a decayed foundation"
  • Having decayed or disintegrated; usually implies foulness; "dead and rotten in his grave"
  • (rottenly) terribly: in a terrible manner; "she sings terribly"
  • (rottenness) putrescence: in a state of progressive putrefaction
  • Of perishable items, overridden with bacteria and other infectious agents; In a state of decay; Cruel, mean or immoral; Bad or terrible; To an extreme degree
  • The Museum of Broadcast Communications is located in Chicago, Illinois. ... Ferris State University is an institute of higher learning whose main campus is located in Big Rapids, Michigan, in Mecosta County, with a secondary campus in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and smaller programs located ...
  • A highly displeasing taste fault resulting from deterioration of the coffee beans.
  • Threat of cancer; Wood: threat to colon; Tooth: threat to uterus;