Both words in one sentence
- In Allison Croggon's Books of Pellinor series, the main character's younger brother (and the main character of book three) Hem grew up in a terrible orphanage in a corrupt and rotting town.
Source: Orphanage of Fear -
Face Heel Revolving Door/HeelFace Revolving Door: In a Robin Hood parody, BJ steals from the corrupt Sheriff of Rotting-Ham and gives to the poor, but begins to keep more for himself, until he is the wealthiest person in the village.
Source: Western Animation / Beetlejuice
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Rotting and Corrupt. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 01, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/corrupt/rotting
Corrupt & Rotting. N.p., 2016. Web. 01 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/corrupt/rotting>.
Rotting or Corrupt. 2016. Accessed August 01, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/corrupt/rotting.
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