The phrase "almost rotten" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is nearing a state of decay or spoilage but is not completely spoiled yet.
Example: "The apples in the basket were almost rotten, so I decided to make a pie before they went bad."
Alternatives: "nearly spoiled" or "about to decay".
Like, if an apple I bought is almost rotten anyway, by all means, help yourself.
More generally, most entries are flattering, although some are less than complimentary; the 1773 listing for Miss Berry denounces her as "almost rotten, and her breath cadaverous".
In a movie where almost everyone is rotten except for an innocent couple sucked into the fray, who really cares?
It's almost like a Rotten Tomatoes rating customized for your liking.
This means that ordinary investors were creamed by these allegedly hot issues because the first day's closing price is usually their first chance to get in the big players are the only ones allowed in at the offering price.; Once again we learn that IPOs almost always make rotten investments.
He felt so rotten he almost phoned Julia, but their last conversation warded him off.
Calum Paton, professor of Health Policy at Keele University, said Stafford was almost certainly not "one rotten apple" and changes needed to be brought in across the NHS.
"This is going to give an opportunity for all of Chicago to come out, demonstrate their outrage and their anger in a nonviolent way". City officials have framed the cop who killed McDonald as one bad apple, but the department has been rotten for almost a century.
Critical reception to the film was almost universally negative, with a Rotten score of 11% across 61 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and a score of 20/100 on Metacritic.
When Henry Brougham visited in 1799 he noted that "the air is infected by a stench almost insupportable – a compound of rotten fish, filth of all sorts and stinking seafowl".
