rotted

Like a fish, America’s manners have rotted from the top down.

"He routinely fabricates stories originating from his sick and warped imagination, only possible because he has a severe and debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted his peanut-sized brain."

In “The Great Yes,” Kentridge turns to a creaky old cargo ship smelling of rotted oranges that sailed from Marseille to Martinique in 1941 overcrowded with some 300 passengers escaping Vichy France.

Outside the Shoreline Fuel Mart, the cracked and brittle peanut gathered moss and slowly rotted from the inside.

"Did I just lead a group to spend millions of dollars on a pile of dust artwork that essentially rotted away?" he wondered.