rotten

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rotten

1. affected with rot; decomposing, decaying, or putrid

2. (of rocks, soils, etc.) soft and crumbling, esp as a result of weathering

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Their parents stuffed the empty sack with three rotten vegetable marrows, an old blacking-brush and two decayed turnips.

One of the rotten marrows came flying through the kitchen window, and hit the youngest Flopsy Bunny.

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Cadwallader, "half the rotten eggs would mean hatred of your committee-man.

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"Not so rotten as I should have expected," said Philip.

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Tom flung off his jacket and trousers, turned a suspender into a belt, raked away some brush behind the rotten log, dis- closing a rude bow and arrow, a lath sword and a tin trumpet, and in a moment had seized these things and bounded away, barelegged, with fluttering shirt.

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But, as a matter of fact, the rather rotten time which she was having was not such a very rotten one.

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On either side were rude gods, some grotesquely carved, others no more than shapeless logs swathed in rotten and indescribably filthy matting.

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You won't go back to your ships and sea; therefore, you'll hang around these pest-holes of cities until your bones are rotten, and then you'll die."

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There they sat winking, while the summer-house was cleared of the rank growth that had choked it up, while the rotten wood-work was renewed, while all the murky place was purified with air and light.

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Women and little children would fall to cursing about it; it was rotten, rotten as hell--everything was rotten.

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He's gone through every penny he ever had, publishing rotten verses in fancy bindings.

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REGULAR Hotline caller and Bluenose Alfie Mullin wound up the Hoops faithful when he declared Celtic's third kit a 'rotten strip for a rotten team'.