Rottenness
['rɑtnnɪs]
Examples
- In those who like it there is always a rottenness. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- By little and little he has been induced to trust in that rotten reed, and it communicates some portion of its rottenness to everything around him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- In the joking commences a rottenness. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The first great capitalistic system developed and fell into chaos through its own inherent rottenness. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- All had a secret sense of power, and of inexpressible destructiveness, and of fatal half-heartedness, a sort of rottenness in the will. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The very rats, which here and there lay putrefying in its rottenness, were hideous with famine. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
Edited by Faye