(a.) Having rotted; putrid; decayed; as, a rotten apple; rotten meat.
(a.) Offensive to the smell; fetid; disgusting.
(a.) Not firm or trusty; unsound; defective; treacherous; unsafe; as, a rotten plank, bone, stone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Far from being depressed, the audience turned into a heaving mass of furious geeks, who roared their anger and vowed that they would not rest until they had brought down the rotten system The "skeptic movement" (always spelt with "k" by the way, to emphasise their distinctiveness) had come to Singh's aid.
(2) Artists round the globe may plead free speech, but to treat the Pussy Riot gesture as a glorious stand for artistic liberty is like praising Johnny Rotten, who did similar things, as the Voltaire of our day.
(3) produced strong rotten, fishy, hydrogen sulphide off-odours.
(4) It would defer the moment of confronting the underlying problem, which is not a strong currency but a rotten state.
(5) Distinction was made between different types of odours (rotten, wood).
(6) It was "inconceivable" that one rotten apple was at the heart of it all.
(7) She is rotten through and through, as you feel Ayres might have put it herself.
(8) Some gifted and canny writers have made a mint by appealing to teenagers’ sense of anguish and victimhood, the notion that they are forever embattled and persecuted by a rotten world run by authoritarian bozos.
(9) Devine strongly denied a suggestion that parliament was "rotten to the core".
(10) The character George Bowling bites into a frankfurter he has bought in an milk bar decorated in chrome and mirrors: "The thing burst in my mouth like a rotten pear.
(11) The project reunites her with Jane Campion, director of An Angel At My Table, in which Fox hiked, rotten-toothed and bubble-haired, across the hills of New Zealand.
(12) The relative efficiency of the next generation of solar cells is trivial by comparison.” In other words, our problem has a lot less to do with the mechanics of solar power than the politics of human power – specifically whether there can be a shift in who wields it, a shift away from corporations and toward communities, which in turn depends on whether or not the great many people who are getting a rotten deal under our current system can build a determined and diverse enough social force to change the balance of power.
(13) Rotten" – is meant to satirise David Cameron, George Osborne and Boris Johnson's days at the Buller.
(14) Tellingly, all of these were occupied by the business of peeling back the veneer of Austro-Hungarian culture to expose the rottenness beneath, and this might have had something to do with the fact that, when they were in their teens, another Viennese, Sigmund Freud, was putting together the framework of the new technique of psychoanalysis.
(15) Finally, from 1978 here's the 0-0 draw in Mar del Plata on a rotten pitch with David Coleman.
(16) 40 min: Rotten shot from Henderson, a terrible waste when Downing had turned McNaughton thsi way then that before crossing.
(17) Isn't it worried as to how and why so many rotten apples creep into its barrel?
(18) The film, starring the Bridesmaids actor as a former business heavyweight struggling to rebuild her life after completing a jail sentence for insider trading, has a rating of just 17% on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes and was labelled an “unfunny, chaotic mess of ludicrous plotting and tone-deaf set-pieces” by Jordan Hoffman in the Guardian.
(19) If Labour is complicit with the idea that Westminster is rotten, it promotes the idea that real change is not available from national politics.
(20) There isn't much in the way of revelation to be found in Samantha Geimer's new memoir, The Girl; every rotten detail of Roman Polanski's conviction in a US court for "unlawful sex with a minor", flight and subsequent exile in France has been in the public eye for years.
Rotter
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The new scale appears to be a more sensitive measure of locus of control than Rotter's scale.
(2) As a part of the evaluation, they completed Rotter's Locus of Control (LOC) form in the follicular phase and premenstrually.
(3) Alcoholics were assigned to four groups based upon differential scores on Rotter's Locus of Control and Tiffany's Experienced Control Scales.
(4) The presence of lymph nodes between the pectoralis major and minor muscles (Rotter's nodes) has been noted in the anatomic and surgical literature.
(5) Radical mastectomy (Rotter-Halsted) lowered the local and regional recurrence rate from 60% to 6%.
(6) No differences were found with the use of the Internal-External Scale (Rotter, 1966).
(7) The contribution of genes within the major histocompatibility complex to rheumatoid arthritis has been calculated (Rotter & Landaw 1984).
(8) Each participant completed a questionnaire containing a Rotter Internal-External Locus of Control Scale, the Rotter Interpersonal Trust Scale, the Behavioral Attributes of Psychosocial Competence, and a scale measuring family pattern of unwed parenthood.
(9) The Rotter I-E scale was administered to college juniors in education under five different instructional sets.
(10) Profile surveys, completed Rotter I-E scales, and questionnaires on past relapse behavior were collected from 108 New Jersey compulsive gamblers who attended Gamblers Anonymous, and an attempt was made, based on the findings, to predict incidence of compulsive gamblers' relapse.
(11) Scores on Rotter's Interpersonal Trust Scale and Beck Depression Scale correlated negatively for 40 high school students.
(12) Independently, both husbands and wives completed a Byrne's Revised Repression-Sensitization scale, Rotter's I-E scale, and Attitude Toward Sex scale, a Reaction to the Temperature-Rhythm Method scale, and a sexual behavior inventory.
(13) The present study examined Rotter's Internal-External (I-E) locus of control (LOC) concept in relation to life satisfaction and death anxiety in an aged population.
(14) The super-radical Rotter-Halstedt operation of breast cancer is past history, and also the modified radical mastectomy (Patey) is performed in fewer cases.
(15) Eighty college students (36 male and 44 female) were classified as having relatively high internal or external locus of control beliefs using Rotter's Internal-External Scale.
(16) Rotter's I-E Scale was administered to 19 moderately obese adolescent girls and 10 girls who were children of alcoholics in outpatient treatment.
(17) Seventy-seven male college students completed the Rotter Incomplete Sentences Blank and the Beck Depression Inventory and subsequently received success or failure feedback on tasks for which they provided expectancy and minimal goal statements.
(18) Other self report measures obtained were the Premenstrual Assessment Form, Rotter's Internal External Locus of Control, the Locke-Wallace Marital Adjustment Scale, and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory.
(19) Questionnaires were administered to assess patients' self-reports of locus of control (Rotter's I-E scale) and their perceptions of their mothers' child rearing attitudes (Schaefer's CRPBI).
(20) Participants were 24 unwed adolescent fathers and 27 unwed adolescent nonfathers, aged 15-19 years who visited 3 Centers for Mothers and Children in Washington, D.C. Each participant completed a questionnaire containing a Rotter Internal-External Locus of Control Scale, the Rotter Interpersonal Trust Scale, the Behavioral Attributes of Psychosocial Competence, and a scale measuring family pattern of unwed parenthood.