- spoiled rotten
- spoiled rottenFig. indulged in; greatly spoiled. •
This kid is spoiled rotten!
•I was spoiled rotten when I was a child, so I'm used to this kind of wasteful luxury.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
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spoiled rotten — mod. indulged in; greatly spoiled. □ This kid is spoiled rotten! □ I was spoiled rotten when I was a child, so I’m used to this kind of wasteful luxury … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
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spoiled — usually spoilt BrE adjective 1 someone, especially a child, who is spoiled is rude and behaves badly because their parents have always given them what they want and allowed them to do what they want: spoiled brat (=spoiled, annoying child) |… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
rotten — 1 adjective 1 badly decayed: rotten fruit | the smell of rotten eggs | The wood was completely rotten. 2 informal very nasty or unpleasant: What rotten weather! | It s a rotten thing to do. 3 informal a word meaning very bad at doing something,… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
rotten — I. adjective Etymology: Middle English roten, from Old Norse rotinn; akin to Old English rotian to rot Date: 13th century 1. having rotted ; putrid 2. morally corrupt 3. extremely unpleasant or inferior < a rotten day > < a … New Collegiate Dictionary
spoiled — Synonyms and related words: ausgespielt, bad, bankrupt, barfy, beautiless, blasted, blemished, blighted, blotted, botched, brackish, broken, bungled, butchered, cacophonic, cacophonous, cankered, carious, cloying, coddled, corrupt, decayed,… … Moby Thesaurus
rotten to the core — {adj. phr.} 1. Thoroughly decayed or spoiled. * /This apple is inedible; it is brown and soft and rotten to the core./ 2. In total moral collapse. * /The Communist government of Cuba is rotten to the core./ … Dictionary of American idioms
rotten to the core — {adj. phr.} 1. Thoroughly decayed or spoiled. * /This apple is inedible; it is brown and soft and rotten to the core./ 2. In total moral collapse. * /The Communist government of Cuba is rotten to the core./ … Dictionary of American idioms
rotten — [adj1] decayed, decaying bad, badsmelling, corroded, corrupt, crumbled, crumbling, decomposed, decomposing, disgusting, disintegrated, disintegrating, fecal, feculent, festering, fetid, foul, gross, infected, loathsome, loud, mephitic, moldering … New thesaurus
rotten — ► ADJECTIVE 1) suffering from decay. 2) corrupt. 3) informal very bad or unpleasant. ► ADVERB informal ▪ very much: your mother spoiled you rotten. DERIVATIVES rottenness noun … English terms dictionary
