The word "rottenness" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun that describes a state of being spoiled, decayed, or corrupted. You might use it when discussing the effects of a bad decision or negative behavior, such as: "The rottenness of his actions has caused irreparable damage to his reputation."
None of them quite proving satisfying, he flirted ever more obviously with Roper's own concept of what it means to be alive: becoming a man, Roper told him, "is realising that it's all rotten", but "realising how to celebrate that rottenness – now that's freedom".
"Hayek was not a liquidationist," he says, referring to the philosophy of Andrew Mellon, President Herbert Hoover's Depression-era treasury secretary, who wanted to "purge the rottenness out of the system".
These are resented by many Indians in the same way that Americans despair of the rottenness within the Beltway.
The rottenness in football shocked even the unshakeable Mr Rossi.
Armed with extraordinary powers, its judges are accustomed to playing an exceedingly forward role in mitigating the rottenness and disfunctionality in Indian public life.
Both suggest the same underlying shift: the rise of what can glibly be described as personality politics, but might equally and less judgmentally be called trust-based politics.Behind that rise, of course, lies the parliamentary-expenses scandal, for many Britons itself only the outward sign of a rottenness that had long contaminated politics.
Yet the latest murders reveal a rottenness at the heart of a country better known nowadays for the beauty of its coast.
This rottenness lay at the core of Italian banking.Today a new mood is evident.
At Farouk's first wedding in 1938, when the young king who was shortly to become a byword for rottenness still seemed a latterday Tutankhamun, even Cairo's pickpockets declared a moratorium for the day.
ANDREW MELLON, Herbert Hoover's treasury secretary, advised the president to "liquidate real estate" as part of a plan to "purge the rottenness out of the system".
Closing the jail, Sir David acknowledged, was probably the best way "to eliminate the rottenness", but he accepted that in the short term this was impractical.The Prison Service and the union are both still smarting from Sir David's indictment.
