rotter

noun

rot·​ter ˈrä-tər 

: a thoroughly objectionable person

Synonyms

• bastard
• beast
• bleeder [British]
• blighter [chiefly British]
• boor
• bounder
• bugger
• buzzard
• cad
• chuff
• churl
• clown
• creep
• cretin
• crud [slang]
• crumb [slang]
• cur
• dirtbag [slang]
• dog
• fink
• heel
• hound
• jerk
• joker
• louse
• lout
• pill
• rat
• rat fink
• reptile
• schmuck [slang]
• scum
• scumbag [slang]
• scuzzball [slang]
• skunk
• sleaze
• sleazebag [slang]
• sleazeball [slang]
• slime
• slimeball [slang]
• slob
• snake
• so-and-so
• sod [chiefly British]
• stinkard
• stinker
• swine
• toad
• varmint
• vermin

Examples of rotter in a Sentence

the dirty rotter dumped his wife to marry his secretary

Recent Examples on the Web

As Beau, Brake is tall and gaunt, with burning eyes, a rotter who looks like Steve Buscemi crossed with David Byrne crossed with a human rattlesnake who’s a lifelong junkie. —Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 May 2024

Some experts say bed rotters are onto something, but there may be a right way to think about it. —Byalexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 10 July 2023

So many directors have that cynical and alienated quality, the idea that everyone’s a rotter. —Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2021

This rich rotter’s story, needless to say, does not end well for him. —Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2017

Word History

First Known Use

1879, in the meaning defined above