What's the difference between rotten and rusty?

Rotten


Definition:

  • (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.

Rusty


Definition:

  • (superl.) Covered or affected with rust; as, a rusty knife or sword; rusty wheat.
  • (superl.) Impaired by inaction, disuse, or neglect.
  • (superl.) Discolored and rancid; reasty; as, rusty bacon.
  • (superl.) Surly; morose; crusty; sullen.
  • (superl.) Rust-colored; dark.
  • (superl.) Discolored; stained; not cleanly kept; filthy.
  • (superl.) Resembling, or covered with a substance resembling, rust; affected with rust; rubiginous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Its diplomatic machinery is a little bit rusty," said Zhu Feng, of Peking University's centre for international and strategic studies.
  • (2) Soon my pillowcases bore rusty coins of nasal drippage.
  • (3) Protected by a rusty padlocked gate, Macrinus's tomb was targeted by thieves after it was first excavated in 2008.
  • (4) A gentle drizzle beats an insistent rhythm on the rusty, corrugated iron classroom roof at Katwe primary school in a suburb of Kampala, Uganda’s capital.
  • (5) But to enjoy it like a local, give the tourist-tat main road a miss and dive into the snarl of side streets, where wheeler-dealers hawk everything from rusty doorknobs to 17th-century art.
  • (6) With the breakdown of trapped hemoglobin, iron-containing hemosiderin is stored in synovial tissue producing rusty discoloration and proliferative reaction.
  • (7) 3.26am BST 62 mins The hour coming up is not lost on our Twitter followers Rusty (@bussruckley) But seriously, can Jurgen make a sub before its too late?
  • (8) The man with the rusty teeth struggles over the word on the whiteboard, one of a handful the teacher has written for the class.
  • (9) Rusty (@bussruckley) @KidWeil these vuvuzelas are death.
  • (10) Regardless, the England manager is keen to include Wilshere in the squad in the belief he boasts the required pedigree to succeed, however rusty he is after his lay-off.
  • (11) Diagnosis of the first case was made from fragments of an endometrial polyp obtained after curettage done because of a rusty vaginal discharge and lower abdominal pain.
  • (12) As the interval arrived the home rear-defence had indeed been more composed, though Kompany’s rustiness caused two errors.
  • (13) He said allegations by a senior government official that the tools were rusty were untrue and that he wore gloves and a gown.
  • (14) When a lost boy meets a rusty child who teaches him to chomp iron bars, or a disgruntled crowd is distracted by beancurd fritters, Mo insists that everything lags behind the belly.
  • (15) Didier Drogba was making the first start of his second coming in these parts, but was understandably rusty and, long before the end, rather wheezing.
  • (16) A faint dog-collar effect is lent by that all-white chin, the rest of his rusty beard creeping over his cheeks like a delightful kind of lichen.
  • (17) The moors, covered with bracken turning a rusty brown, stretched as far as the eye could see.
  • (18) This will be a classic "are they rusty or rested" game, as Miami return from vacation to face a Nets team that just finished a grueling seven-game series against the Toronto Raptors on Sunday, winning 104-103 only after Pierce blocked Kyle Lowry's attempted game-winner.
  • (19) Since Warp's minimal beginnings, they've built a legacy that has taken in a florally abundant range of styles, from the haunted psychedelia of Broadcast to Bibio, Boards Of Canada, Black Dog Productions and Rustie .
  • (20) Mesut Özil, Santi Cazorla and Alexis Sánchez, restored after his exertions at the Copa América, all revelled where they had been so rusty at the Emirates Stadium the previous week as Arsenal whipped up the kind of upbeat tempo they had enjoyed in the spring, when, albeit in a game of catch-up, they had been the Premier League’s resurgent force.