rottenness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for rottenness
Noun
  • Donald Trump and Elon Musk and their universe of sycophants who worship wickedness can’t be changed by continues eye contact.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
  • May God bless the entire Trump administration with swift repentance from this wickedness.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Lex is a tech billionaire very much in the Musk/Zuckerberg mode, but Hoult gives him sufficient ambiguity to blur the lines of his villainy between someone genuinely concerned about humankind in thrall to an alien and someone who just wants absolute power at any price.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 8 July 2025
  • Cosby’s good guys do things that outpace the rankest villainy in the work of other crime writers.
    Vulture Editors, Vulture, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • The heavy stacks of cash fit into a pattern emerging throughout the trial as prosecutors attempt to paint Combs as a man spoiled by success, able to hide a tendency for abuse and criminality through a large staff and an ever-larger fortune.
    Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 4 June 2025
  • Advertisement Now, the three branches of government are under Republican control, enabled and empowered by a fact-free MAGA narrative in which the rhetoric around immigration is synonymous with violent criminality.
    Jose Antonio Vargas, Time, 4 July 2025
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“Rottenness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rottenness. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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