ROTTEN


Meaning of ROTTEN in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a terrible/poor/rotten liar (= who does not tell believable lies )

You're a rotten liar, Julia. What really happened?

bad/rotten

She felt ashamed of her bad teeth and rarely smiled.

rotten to the core

That woman is rotten to the core !

rotten (= bad, so that the skin goes brown )

There were a few rotten apples lying on the ground.

spoiled rotten (= very spoiled )

Their children were spoiled rotten .

spoil...rotten (= spoil him very much )

His mother and sisters spoil him rotten .

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

apple

From that bad start, many little rotten apples grew.

If you have one rotten apple in the bunch, it impacts the others.

We reject green and rotten apples; only the ripe apple is good.

In this case, Acheson said one rotten apple would infect the whole barrel.

A few windows were flung open, and two little lads pelted Broomhead with rotten apples before they were chased off.

And they are doing it in an era that has seen dot-coms dropping from the Internet tree like rotten apples .

egg

When Vice-President Nixon toured the area in 1958 he was pelted with rotten eggs and jostled by angry demonstrators.

All of the vent fluids are rich in this compound, which has the distinct odor of rotten eggs .

The smell is distinctive, too: chemicals and rotten eggs , the hydrogen sulphides produced by processing coal.

He smelt raw earth and then something else - rotten eggs .

There may also be green diarrhoea and a smell of rotten eggs .

Pelted with rotten eggs and faced with armed threats, the protesters eventually turned back.

luck

It's rotten , rotten luck .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a dirty/rotten/mean trick

Bomb threats and other dirty tricks kept many voters at home.

a poor/rotten etc excuse for sth

But Tories have continued to attack, saying the scheme is a poor excuse for real pedestrianisation.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

rotten eggs

a pile of rotten apples

I've had a rotten day.

I wouldn't climb that tree if I were you - some of the branches look rotten .

The floor in the bathroom is all rotten .

There was a disgusting smell in the house - a bit like rotten eggs.

There were some cheap oranges in the market but most of them were rotten .

Tom complained loudly about the rotten service.

We want to get rid of the whole rotten tax system.

You're rotten at lying.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Gao Yang was frightened by his rotten , misshapen teeth and weepy, festering eyes.

He's had a rotten life and he's still having it with that woman.

He scrabbled in the snow for the rotten corpse.

In this case, Acheson said one rotten apple would infect the whole barrel.

Inspect stored fruit every week and throw out any that has started to go rotten .

She flung the receiver away from her as though it were rotten , and backed toward the door.

The group publicizes the problems of families denied information from Chechnya as well as the rotten conditions of troops there.

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