adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a terrible/poor/rotten liar (= who does not tell believable lies )
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You're a rotten liar, Julia. What really happened?
bad/rotten
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She felt ashamed of her bad teeth and rarely smiled.
rotten to the core
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That woman is rotten to the core !
rotten (= bad, so that the skin goes brown )
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There were a few rotten apples lying on the ground.
spoiled rotten (= very spoiled )
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Their children were spoiled rotten .
spoil...rotten (= spoil him very much )
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His mother and sisters spoil him rotten .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
apple
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From that bad start, many little rotten apples grew.
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If you have one rotten apple in the bunch, it impacts the others.
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We reject green and rotten apples; only the ripe apple is good.
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In this case, Acheson said one rotten apple would infect the whole barrel.
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A few windows were flung open, and two little lads pelted Broomhead with rotten apples before they were chased off.
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And they are doing it in an era that has seen dot-coms dropping from the Internet tree like rotten apples .
egg
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When Vice-President Nixon toured the area in 1958 he was pelted with rotten eggs and jostled by angry demonstrators.
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All of the vent fluids are rich in this compound, which has the distinct odor of rotten eggs .
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The smell is distinctive, too: chemicals and rotten eggs , the hydrogen sulphides produced by processing coal.
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He smelt raw earth and then something else - rotten eggs .
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There may also be green diarrhoea and a smell of rotten eggs .
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Pelted with rotten eggs and faced with armed threats, the protesters eventually turned back.
luck
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It's rotten , rotten luck .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a dirty/rotten/mean trick
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Bomb threats and other dirty tricks kept many voters at home.
a poor/rotten etc excuse for sth
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But Tories have continued to attack, saying the scheme is a poor excuse for real pedestrianisation.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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rotten eggs
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a pile of rotten apples
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I've had a rotten day.
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I wouldn't climb that tree if I were you - some of the branches look rotten .
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The floor in the bathroom is all rotten .
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There was a disgusting smell in the house - a bit like rotten eggs.
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There were some cheap oranges in the market but most of them were rotten .
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Tom complained loudly about the rotten service.
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We want to get rid of the whole rotten tax system.
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You're rotten at lying.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Gao Yang was frightened by his rotten , misshapen teeth and weepy, festering eyes.
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He's had a rotten life and he's still having it with that woman.
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He scrabbled in the snow for the rotten corpse.
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In this case, Acheson said one rotten apple would infect the whole barrel.
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Inspect stored fruit every week and throw out any that has started to go rotten .
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She flung the receiver away from her as though it were rotten , and backed toward the door.
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The group publicizes the problems of families denied information from Chechnya as well as the rotten conditions of troops there.