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rottenness

noun

Etymology

From Middle English rotennesse; equivalent to rotten + -ness.

  1. inherited from rotennesse

Definitions

  1. The quality of being rotten.

    • The track was further weakened by the too wide spacing of the sleepers, most of which "were in the last stage of rottenness."
    • Slowly Matilda sat down. Oh, the rottenness of it all! The unfairness! How dare they expel her for something she hadn't done!

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for rottenness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA