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Rotten is acceptable, as is putrid.
The notion that our generation has been spoiled rotten is not a terribly new thought.
As Pop says, "What makes people go rotten is loneliness", to which Mol replies: "People get lonely when they think they're better than other people".
("In MY day we just picked at our cuticles. Kids today are spoiled rotten!" is how one wag on UrbanBaby, the parenting site, captured that impulse).
A surprise success of the spring season, "Something Rotten!" is as gleefully disposable a crowd-pleaser as they come, telling the story of two hapless Renaissance rivals to Shakespeare who decide to mount the world's first musical comedy.
It's no surprise Rotten is selling butter or mincing about on I'm A Celebrity, if Sid hadn't checked out he would probably be gobbing in the swimming pool of the Celebrity Big Brother house by now.
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But "Rotten" wasn't rotten.
Hamlet had the trustworthy friend Horatio, and, for all the bloodletting, what was "rotten" was purged.
The full capitals of "ROTTEN" are Zelda's.
Schiele's rotten beauty is in place.
And the rotten rose is ript from the wall.
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