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Definition of Rottener
1. rotten [adj] - See also: rotten
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rottener
Literary usage of Rottener
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1878)
"... the more great,) So peason and barlie delight not in sand, but rather in claie
or in rottener land. 12 Wheat somtime is steelie or burnt as it growes, ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1882)
"There are likewise rotten boards of trustees and rottener municipal rings.
With such sustenance at their roots, what can be expected of the outgrowth ? ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1882)
"... the certificates that place the insane in the hands of the superintendents.
There are likewise rotten boards of trustees and rottener municipal rings. ..."
4. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"What the head carver had best do is to serve me with what they call ollas-podridas (and
the rottener they are the better they smell); and he can put ..."