Sentence examples for a pretty rotten from inspiring English sources
"We're in a pretty rotten television economy".
In the Commons, the Roundheads had a pretty rotten time.
Most people think secession would be a pretty rotten idea now, but it still comes up sometimes.
Voting for lesser of two (or three) evils is a pretty rotten way to run a democracy, after all.
A good job she agreed to marry me, as it would have been a pretty rotten evening otherwise.
Yet it's a pretty rotten cure if it leaves users sitting ducks for a separate attack.
"I was getting pretty crazy and into some pretty rotten drugs and drinking a lot," he told the music writer Barney Hoskyns years later.
And the outside world tends to be viewed as a source of trouble.Indeed, for a great many people the way things are is pretty rotten: Burmese monks, for instance, or the Luo in Kenya.
ROSE TREMAIN'S new novel takes place in and around Copenhagen in the early 17th century, a good three decades after Shakespeare provided the skinny on what was going down at Elsinore a few centuries earlier -- but things are still pretty rotten in the state of Denmark.
There's a pretty clear implication that most people's luck actually turns out to be pretty rotten, which underlines one of Anderson's recurring themes: British life always comes with the sour tang of disappointment.
"She said, pretty rotten".
