Examples of rotten

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She had spoiled him rotten, and did not intervene in time.
Trees with rotten cores (15% of the cases) were not used for the analysis of age.
One might perhaps refer to this as the 'rotten core' as opposed to the 'septic fringe'!
The spice of the incident lies in the audacity of the under dog: the simple, honest man converting rotten parchment bonds into matter-of-fact fodder.
On the earlier frontier, punk was dry, powdery fuel (from rotten wood to dry buffalo chips) used to help get afirestarted.
Virtually the entire infrastructure was rotten or outdated and would have to be replaced.
In negotiating obstacles and rotten floors, one engages with the fabric of the building, and is given a heightened awareness of materiality.
While being used, the "toilet" was usually surrounded by a piece of rotten wood, or tattered cloth, in order to preserve some privacy.
We discovered that our society was rotten, traditional, unprogressive.
The things slipped off the stoves like hot cakes and ships cook on a boat like this is rotten.
Repairs were carried out in 1818 and the following year the carpenter who had carried out those repairs reported that the gates were 'rotten'.
Ten per cent of all seeds had rotten endosperm, but did not show any apparent penetration of the seed coat.
Residents often lamented that their feet were infected by the wastewater, causing them to become itchy, swollen, and even rotten.
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