Definition of Rotten

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Rotten

Having rotted; putrid; decayed; as, a rotten apple; rotten meat.

Offensive to the smell; fetid; disgusting.

Not firm or trusty; unsound; defective; treacherous; unsafe; as, a rotten plank, bone, stone.

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Rotten Quotations

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
Albert Camus

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

Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead.
Jack Kevorkian

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.
Rita Mae Brown

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.
John Kenneth Galbraith

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.
Zhuangzi

I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
Billy Connolly

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
Hannah Arendt

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.
Billy Sunday

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
Samuel Johnson

Rotten Translations

rotten in Dutch is rot, bedorven, verrot
rotten in French is putride, pourri
rotten in German is verfault, faulig, verfault
rotten in Hungarian is rohadt, rothadt
rotten in Italian is mostruoso, putrido
rotten in Latin is puter, cariosus
rotten in Spanish is abominable, pocho, podrido, putrido

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