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• n  in a state of progressive putrefaction
• n  the quality of rotting and becoming putrid

• At its best it conveyed an idea about how the rottenness of big cities touches everyone, high and low, respectable and raffish.
• And so, instead of letting creative destruction work its magic and purge the rottenness out of our financial sector, we're engaged in a sloppy, counterproductive, hugely expensive .
• Mao plowed through the rottenness at the core of the Kuomintang.

• putrescence
• putridness
• corruption

Quotes

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• Galarrwuy Yunupingu in Melbourne Herald Sun
  Mr Yunupingu called the federal government move "the lowest of anybody's form of policy". "I am just reminding people that this is a struggle. I appeal to you to stand beside us to fight the rottenness that is ...... the sickness of this...
• Nick Clegg in Public Service
  And Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg will say the election call is the "beginning of the end for Gordon Brown" who has presided over the UK's biggest ever deficit as well as "corruption and rottenness" in politics.
• Andrew Mellon in Business Spectator
  In 1931, Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon explained the process to President Herbert Hoover: "Liquidate labour, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate. Purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living and high...