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Meanings of rottenness in English

Portuguese
corrupção
Catalan
descomposició
Spanish
corrupción

In a state of progressive putrefaction.

        corrupção
        Usage of rottenness in English
        1
        Only the rottenness in him hasn't broke out because of the weed.
        The Heart of Unaga
        2
        Society is the builder of fourflushers, the generator of insincerity-falsehoodand rottenness.
        Evening Round-Up / More Good Stuff Like Pep
        3
        Here nothing lived, not even the leprous growths that feed on rottenness.
        The two towers
        4
        Perhaps-whoknows-itmay take the taste of rottenness out of my mouth.
        Charles Rex
        5
        But to Gordon's trained eyes, there was plenty of outright rottenness, too.
        Police Your Planet
        6
        It could see through the mask of impartiality to the rottenness below.
        The Guardian
        7
        Oh, wise woman, truly did you see the rottenness in this king!
        Imaginations and Reveries
        8
        The despotism of a thousand years fell at a touch in noiseless rottenness.
        Reform and Politics / Part 2 from The Works of John Greenleaf Wh...
        9
        There's enough rottenness in the present without raking up the past.
        Quin
        10
        Parliamentary rottenness had slowly increased till it had begun to attack society itself.
        The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 1
        11
        Sanitary revolutionists and incendiaries accuse us of gorging rottenness, and battening on corruption.
        International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science —...
        12
        A faint smell- asmellof corruption, of ancient rottenness-aroseon the superheated air.
        Brood of the Witch-Queen
        13
        For over a thousand years, theirs was an economy of death and rottenness.
        Hunters Out of Space
        14
        One thing he teaches, that there is rottenness where he appears.
        Essays — First Series
        15
        The earth is corrupt, science only serves to show its rottenness.
        Doctor Pascal
        16
        If she lives she'll only infect more people with her rottenness.
        The Dark House
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