Rotten
adjective
When something, usually food, is decayed or spoiled.
The fruit in the bowl is rotten
Often appears as...
- rotten apple
- rotten fruit
adjective
When something or someone is very bad or unpleasant.
The movie was absolutely rotten
Often appears as...
- rotten job
- rotten weather
Usage tips
Colloquial
adjective
When someone's behavior is not considered morally right.
He is a rotten thief
Often appears as...
- rotten liar
- rotten cheat
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Informal, Disapproving
adverb
Very, completely.
I'm rotten tired
Often appears as...
- rotten tired
- rotten angry
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
adjective
When something, usually food, is decayed or spoiled.
The fruit in the bowl is rotten
Often appears as...
- rotten apple
- rotten fruit
adjective
When something or someone is very bad or unpleasant.
The movie was absolutely rotten
Often appears as...
- rotten job
- rotten weather
Usage tips
Colloquial
adjective
When someone's behavior is not considered morally right.
He is a rotten thief
Often appears as...
- rotten liar
- rotten cheat
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
adverb
Very, completely.
I'm rotten tired
Often appears as...
- rotten tired
- rotten angry
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
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Pro Tip 1/2Not Just Food
Though 'rotten' often describes food, it can refer to anything decomposed like wood or teeth.
The wooden deck was rotten after years of rain.
Pro Tip 2/2Smell and Texture
'Rotten' implies a bad odor and a squishy or mushy texture.
The rotten vegetables oozed and smelled terrible.
Pro Tip 1/2Not Just Food
Though 'rotten' often describes food, it can refer to anything decomposed like wood or teeth.
The wooden deck was rotten after years of rain.
Pro Tip 2/2Smell and Texture
'Rotten' implies a bad odor and a squishy or mushy texture.
The rotten vegetables oozed and smelled terrible.
Pro Tip 1/2Not Just Food
Though 'rotten' often describes food, it can refer to anything decomposed like wood or teeth.
The wooden deck was rotten after years of rain.
Pro Tip 2/2Smell and Texture
'Rotten' implies a bad odor and a squishy or mushy texture.
The rotten vegetables oozed and smelled terrible.
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Video examples
The strange politics of...
feel very, very disgusted, but if you didn't look, I can tell you about some of the other things that have been shown sort of across the world to make people disgusted, things like feces, urine, blood, rotten flesh. These are the sorts of things that it makes sense for us to stay away from, because they might actually contaminate us.
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Rodney Mullen: Pop an...
Those are the community. These are some of the best skaters in the world. These are my friends -- oh my gosh, they're such good people. And the beauty of skateboarding is that, no one guy is the best. In fact, I know this is rotten to say, they're my friends, but a couple of them actually don't look that comfortable on their board.
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Growing Sweet Potatoes PIPE...
give it some water here very important that you give them a lot of water for like the first month put a little jar over it and that's continuing that greenhouse effect because you want to keep it hot and then come the fall you just knock the box over if it's not already rotten by that point and you
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The danger of science...
And why? Genetically engineered food. We don't want to encourage people to eat that rotten stuff, like cassava for instance. Cassava's something that half a billion people eat. It's kind of like a potato. It's just a bunch of calories. It sucks. It doesn't have nutrients, it doesn't have protein,
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Tristram Stuart: The...
rather than throwing it away. That became, as it were, a way of confronting large businesses in the business of wasting food, and exposing, most importantly, to the public, that when we're talking about food being thrown away, we're not talking about rotten stuff, we're not talking about
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Following the lights PIPE...
they're worth knows very well that if they don't maintain these islands they will get rotten they will sink and they will cease to exist this experience of observing and being with the earth made me realize as life very ephemeral and I
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Zoologist spots Three...
rotten branch in the darkness by smell alone to help them move around the canopy at night they also create a mind map of trees they have an amazing memory of the canopy connections so she probably knows exactly where she's going
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The world’s most...
And during digestion, mammalian gut bacteria breaks down sulfur and amino acids containing sulfur to produce hydrogen disulphide, a gas with a smell resembling rotten eggs. Seals and sea lions can’t help their funky flatulence,
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Largest Lizard on Earth...
To get the dragons to bite, we're going to need a little bit of encouragement in the form of some honking meat. We have a bite test gauge with stinking rotten meat on it.
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Emmanuel Jal: The music...
As I was tempted to eat the rotten flesh of my comrade, he gave me comfort. We used to raid villages, stealing chickens, goats and sheeps, anything we could eat.
Video examples
The strange politics of...
feel very, very disgusted, but if you didn't look, I can tell you about some of the other things that have been shown sort of across the world to make people disgusted, things like feces, urine, blood, rotten flesh. These are the sorts of things that it makes sense for us to stay away from, because they might actually contaminate us.
Video examples
Rodney Mullen: Pop an...
Those are the community. These are some of the best skaters in the world. These are my friends -- oh my gosh, they're such good people. And the beauty of skateboarding is that, no one guy is the best. In fact, I know this is rotten to say, they're my friends, but a couple of them actually don't look that comfortable on their board.
Video examples
Growing Sweet Potatoes PIPE...
give it some water here very important that you give them a lot of water for like the first month put a little jar over it and that's continuing that greenhouse effect because you want to keep it hot and then come the fall you just knock the box over if it's not already rotten by that point and you
Video examples
The danger of science...
And why? Genetically engineered food. We don't want to encourage people to eat that rotten stuff, like cassava for instance. Cassava's something that half a billion people eat. It's kind of like a potato. It's just a bunch of calories. It sucks. It doesn't have nutrients, it doesn't have protein,
Video examples
Tristram Stuart: The...
rather than throwing it away. That became, as it were, a way of confronting large businesses in the business of wasting food, and exposing, most importantly, to the public, that when we're talking about food being thrown away, we're not talking about rotten stuff, we're not talking about
Video examples
Following the lights PIPE...
they're worth knows very well that if they don't maintain these islands they will get rotten they will sink and they will cease to exist this experience of observing and being with the earth made me realize as life very ephemeral and I
Video examples
Zoologist spots Three...
rotten branch in the darkness by smell alone to help them move around the canopy at night they also create a mind map of trees they have an amazing memory of the canopy connections so she probably knows exactly where she's going
Video examples
The world’s most...
And during digestion, mammalian gut bacteria breaks down sulfur and amino acids containing sulfur to produce hydrogen disulphide, a gas with a smell resembling rotten eggs. Seals and sea lions can’t help their funky flatulence,
Video examples
Largest Lizard on Earth...
To get the dragons to bite, we're going to need a little bit of encouragement in the form of some honking meat. We have a bite test gauge with stinking rotten meat on it.
Video examples
Emmanuel Jal: The music...
As I was tempted to eat the rotten flesh of my comrade, he gave me comfort. We used to raid villages, stealing chickens, goats and sheeps, anything we could eat.
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Feist
Canadian Musician
Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.
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Coretta Scott King
American Activist
The woman power of this nation can be the power which makes us whole and heals the rotten community, now so shattered by war and poverty and racism. I have great faith in the power of women who will dedicate themselves whole-heartedly to the task of remaking our society.
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Zhuangzi
Chinese Philosopher
All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
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George Clooney
American Actor
The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say, 'Oh, it's really tough, my character is really suffering' -come on. For us, even in the rotten ones we've had a good time. I don't think you have to suffer.
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Mexican Director
My father had a difficult relationship with success, maybe because he never obtained it. But he was very wise about it because he observed how you can become rotten fruit once you get power.
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D. H. Lawrence
English Writer
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
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Rita Mae Brown
American Writer
I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.
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Phyllis Diller
American Comedian
It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.
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Jeanne Calment
French Celebrity
In life, people sometimes make rotten deals.
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Gary Burghoff
American Actor
I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
Quote examples
Feist
Canadian Musician
Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.
Quote examples
Coretta Scott King
American Activist
The woman power of this nation can be the power which makes us whole and heals the rotten community, now so shattered by war and poverty and racism. I have great faith in the power of women who will dedicate themselves whole-heartedly to the task of remaking our society.
Quote examples
Zhuangzi
Chinese Philosopher
All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
Quote examples
George Clooney
American Actor
The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say, 'Oh, it's really tough, my character is really suffering' -come on. For us, even in the rotten ones we've had a good time. I don't think you have to suffer.
Quote examples
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Mexican Director
My father had a difficult relationship with success, maybe because he never obtained it. But he was very wise about it because he observed how you can become rotten fruit once you get power.
Quote examples
D. H. Lawrence
English Writer
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
Quote examples
Rita Mae Brown
American Writer
I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.
Quote examples
Phyllis Diller
American Comedian
It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.
Quote examples
Jeanne Calment
French Celebrity
In life, people sometimes make rotten deals.
Quote examples
Gary Burghoff
American Actor
I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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