Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a rotten manner; hence, fetidly; putridly; unsoundly; defectively.
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- adverb In a
rotten manner.
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- adverb in a terrible manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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You feel rotten, so you behave rottenly to everyone around you.
Western Man Janet Dailey 2011
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You feel rotten, so you behave rottenly to everyone around you.
Western Man Janet Dailey 2011
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Malignant-looking blobs poked out between porch steps and protruded from tree bark and festered rottenly in our yard.
Happy Ending to a Fish Tale Ned Crabb 2009
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This often prompts them to hide their real identity with some plausible fear-based excuse or simply moan and whine endlessly about how mean, awful and rottenly depraved their imagined tormentors are…
Blogging Tory publicly calls for violent murder of Canada's leftists. CC 2009
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This open country, though appearing hard, broke rottenly beneath their weight and let our camels in, four or five inches deep, at every stride.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003
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Now we needed eighteen days to reach Padang, the weather was so rottenly still.
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915 Various
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"I treated you rottenly, " she burst out, -because I didn't understand what a selfish swine Toby is.
The Emperor's Snuff-Box Carr, John Dickson, 1906-1977 1942
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And I'm able to do scientific work because of the example you've been to me, though I'm rottenly unfit for it myself.
The Judge Rebecca West 1937
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I have been a rottenly irresponsible person till I began to wear the iron ring of Catholic responsibilities.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Maisie Ward 1932
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Everybody takes it for granted he must act rottenly.
The Unpleasantness At The Belladonna Club Sayers, Dorothy L.Lord Peter 05 1928
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