Sentence examples for rotten reason from inspiring English sources

Business-friendly conservatives had been behind each of these, and then business-friendly conservatives had knitted together the bailout bill for the same rotten reason: to give the bankers whatever they wanted.

He announced that he and his producers had come up with Bump Club because of Will and Kate's pregnancy – what a rotten reason – and immediately went in too hard on the prospective mums (and one dad) who had come into the studio.

He told hundreds of worshippers that Jews are "corrupt, rotten and the reason for all calamities".

Over modern scenes of girls lurching about outside a bar, Davies reads Walter Raleigh rather savagely: "Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses/Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies/ Soon break, soon wither - soon forgotten/In folly ripe, in reason rotten".

"Ah, you look good and feel comfortable in front of a camera," the rotten male mind reasons.

State-owned banks have a rotten record for a reason.

"These corrupt and rotten regimes are the reason behind economic injustice and corruption, the political oppression, and social detachment," he said in 2009.

That would be a rotten idea, for many reasons.

But while she wanted, more than anything, a reason for her rotten feelings she didn't want Harry sacrificed for it.

Emotions, he said – with a nod both to David Hume and evolutionary theory – are useful in providing immediate practical responses (the flinch of disgust at rotten meat, for instance) that reason would be slower to achieve.

What not to do: tell employees they should feel good when they have every reason to feel rotten.