Adjective, : a rotten piece of work; a rotten day at the office. ,a rotten little liar; a rotten trick. From Dictionary.com.
Now we needed eighteen days to reach Padang, the weather was so rottenly still. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
Malignant-looking blobs poked out between porch steps and protruded from tree bark and festered rottenly in our yard. From Wordnik.com. [Happy Ending to a Fish Tale] Reference
This open country, though appearing hard, broke rottenly beneath their weight and let our camels in, four or five inches deep, at every stride. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
"That's too -- rottenly unfair!" he said, faintly. From Wordnik.com. [Flowing Gold] Reference
The case was rottenly septic; never mind the cause. From Wordnik.com. [Red Pepper's Patients With an Account of Anne Linton's Case in Particular] Reference
Everybody takes it for granted he must act rottenly. From Wordnik.com. [The Unpleasantness At The Belladonna Club]
"I consider you treated Baxter rottenly," he said another time. From Wordnik.com. [Sons and Lovers] Reference
"Because it's all so rottenly ignoble," he said, without looking at me. From Wordnik.com. [The Prairie Mother] Reference
You've only got to make believe you're sick or play sort of rottenly a couple of times. From Wordnik.com. [Left Guard Gilbert] Reference
"I treated you rottenly, " she burst out, -because I didn't understand what a selfish swine Toby is. From Wordnik.com. [The Emperor's Snuff-Box]
I have been a rottenly irresponsible person till I began to wear the iron ring of Catholic responsibilities. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Judge] Reference
"For my part," observed Amy, who had been rather bored by the discussion, "I think the whole bunch of you played pretty rottenly.". From Wordnik.com. [Left Tackle Thayer] Reference
` ` All the same, it did take courage -- for I'm a snob at bottom -- like you -- like all of us who've been brought up so foolishly -- so rottenly. From Wordnik.com. [The Conflict] Reference
I appreciate that women are rottenly brought up and have everything to learn -- everything that's worth while if one is to live comfortably and growingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Conflict] Reference
Now we needed eighteen days to reach Padang, the weather was so rottenly still. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 12) Neuve Chapelle, Battle of Ypres, Przemysl, Mazurian Lakes] Reference
I don’t know how to put it into words; but I had a feeling of being up against something that was rottenly dangerous. From Wordnik.com. [Carnacki, the Ghost Finder] Reference
Look on and see you and Jean miserable for years, perhaps, and a man like Hubert broken rottenly like that — what d’you think?”. From Wordnik.com. [Maid in Waiting] Reference
"All the same, it did take courage -- for I'm a snob at bottom -- like you -- like all of us who've been brought up so foolishly -- so rottenly. From Wordnik.com. [The Conflict] Reference
"Not me," replied Bones; "I've finished with you, dear old fellow; as an officer an 'a gentleman you've treated me rottenly -- you have, indeed. From Wordnik.com. [Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country] Reference
Take the advice of your seniors, as I was too pig-headed a fool to do, and don't put it in the power of any woman to make you as rottenly wretched as I am at this minute. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Dop Doctor] Reference
Dead certs are so rottenly unsporting. From Wordnik.com. [Lalage's Lovers] Reference
I've been blind -- and rottenly selfish. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Law] Reference
Padang, the weather was so rottenly still. From Wordnik.com. [World's War Events, Vol. I] Reference
He was too rottenly weak a thing to fight with. From Wordnik.com. [The Devil's Garden] Reference
I've slept rottenly. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Enchanted Canyon] Reference
Hutton's are rottenly Whigs -- ". From Wordnik.com. [Hetty Wesley] Reference
Things go so rottenly, sometimes! ". From Wordnik.com. [The Beloved Woman] Reference
"You are too rottenly good-natured.". From Wordnik.com. [Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate] Reference
I reckon they treated her rottenly. ". From Wordnik.com. [Sons and Lovers] Reference
"And I think I was rottenly underpaid. From Wordnik.com. [This Side of Paradise] Reference
“And I think I was rottenly underpaid. From Wordnik.com. [This Side of Paradise] Reference
"You must have tied it up jolly rottenly. From Wordnik.com. [The White Feather] Reference
"The outsides were passing rottenly today. From Wordnik.com. [The White Feather] Reference
And they get rottenly treated sometimes. ". From Wordnik.com. [Simon Called Peter] Reference
"Well, you know, Chevalier is rottenly bad," replied Roger, without hesitation. From Wordnik.com. [A Mummer's Tale] Reference
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