rotten

Modifying Another Word

• pretty: Presented with some pretty rotten adult examples, the need for good dialog with young people is important.
• thoroughly: It turned out to be thoroughly rotten, probably because the mast step had been steeped in rainwater for the last six years.
• completely: I realize that the banana I am eating is completely rotten.
• really: Come back quot really really rotten remember some insurers.
• rather: Considerable numbers of beetle and fly species associated with rather rotten rubbish and waste were recovered from Roman deposits at One Poultry.
• so: They're so rotten you could probably flick them and they'd break.

Preposition: at

• heart: Thu 18 August 2005 @ 08:44 Comment from: Gerald [ Visitor ] Something has gone rotten at the heart of our constitutional system.

Modifies a noun

• boro: God's curse seems to be upon most of these rotten boroughs.
• swine: You weren't half a rotten swine, Captain, sending him in there with that gorilla alone?
• apple: There are rotten apples in every barrel I suppose.
• sleeper: This keeps this section in tip top condition with no rotten sleepers.
• egg: The only problem was the smell of rotten eggs due to the sulfur in them.
• stump: Malcolm pointed to some rotten stumps with holes in, " a good example of Weka work " he muttered.

Used with adjective complement

• spoil: He spent the rest of the day in our control center being spoilt rotten.
• feel: Alfie feels rotten that he kept him in the dark about her illness.
• go: A couple had started to go rotten - thanks slugs.
• turn: We know how and why most revolutions turn rotten.
• become: Alf & Jill Oxford removed the wooden walkway immediately outside the S & T, which had become quite rotten in places.
• look: The staircase by now was quite derelict with boards steps missing and where they were present, they looked very rotten.

Preposition: in

• state: There is something rotten in the state of Britain.