rottenness


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Synonyms for rottenness

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Synonyms for rottenness

in a state of progressive putrefaction

the quality of rotting and becoming putrid

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In mangoes stored at 10 [degrees]C there was presence of rottenness and deep black spots in the fruits that were subjected to hydrothermal treatment with ethanol (Figures 7, 8 and 9), and this rottenness was proportional to the increase of the ethanol concentration.
His method is simplicity itself, tell the truth re the endemic rottenness of the whole of the British establish-ment from her maj to Lord wash your mouth out Kinnock, none of the great and the good (?) escape his judgement.
Kerem Navot said it is "ironic" that an individual "who was responsible for the rotten prosecution system that Israel runs in the West Bank for several years, currently lives in a house that was built solely due to the very same rottenness that pervades the law enforcement system in its entirety".
Mao wrote, "A person's suicide is determined entirely by circumstances" and "however much Miss Zhao sought life, there was no way for her to go on living." He found fault with Miss Zhao's family, Mr Wu's family and "Chinese society." He made the political statement "The background to this incident is the rottenness of the marriage system, the darkness of the social system, in which there can be no independent ideas or views, and no freedom of choice in love."
A sentence like "These representations of abject bodies appear to symbolize the rottenness of Ireland's social system to which the extradiegetic narrator repeatedly refers in polemic digression that mark a generic breach with novelistic discourse" (61) privileges jargon over clarity.
Ashitey and Mosley are spot-on as the mismatched Harper and Rinaldi -- the early animosity in their collaboration is reminiscent of Mireille Enos and Joel Kinnaman's friction in "The Killing." And, as the evidence begins to mount and DiAngelo and his mooks start to unravel, the actors' performances take on a fearsome anxiety -- Castillo is especially good at portraying a bad cop's spiral into remorse and rottenness.
'The rottenness already affects [the party] at a local level, [officials] try to lie to the Prince and cheat him,' he said, adding that Funcinpec should learn from the Cambodian People's Party's organisational structure.
Listen for arguments like this one, Richardson quoting Hoover's treasury secretary: "It will purge the rottenness out of the system.
James, "the rottenness of Johnsonism." (196) Following the failed Hungarian Revolution, C.L.R.
If the women are saying that "they would pick up arms against the self-style cow protectors" (news.rediff.com), it is time for the nation to sit up and take note of the rottenness of the state of affairs.