Feist

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.

Canadian Musician

Coretta Scott King

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.

American Activist

Zhuangzi

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.

Chinese Philosopher

George Clooney

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.

American Actor

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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.

Mexican Director

D. H. Lawrence

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

English Writer

Rita Mae Brown

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.

American Writer

Phyllis Diller

It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.

American Comedian

Jeanne Calment

In life, people sometimes make rotten deals.

French Celebrity

Gary Burghoff

I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.

Though 'rotten' often describes food, it can refer to anything decomposed like wood or teeth.

Not Just Food

'Rotten' implies a bad odor and a squishy or mushy texture.

Smell and Texture

'Rotten' expresses a strong negative opinion about experiences or things, not mild dislike.

Strong Dislike

In casual language, 'rotten' often adds humorous exaggeration to complaints.

Colloquial Nuance

'Rotten' used for people implies they are inherently bad, not just made a mistake.

Moral Judgment

Describing someone as 'rotten' can be hurtful and accusatory.

Emotional Impact

As an adverb, 'rotten' boosts the intensity of the adjective it modifies.

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Using 'rotten' as an adverb is informal and suits casual chats more than formal writing.

Casual Conversations

 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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 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.

Rodney Mullen: Pop an...

 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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 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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 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

Tristram Stuart: The...

 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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 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

Zoologist spots Three...

 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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 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.

Largest Lizard on Earth...

 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.

Rotten

When something, usually food, is decayed or spoiled.

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When something or someone is very bad or unpleasant.

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When someone's behavior is not considered morally right.

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Very, completely.

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