Good
Good adjective - Having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified.
Usage example: good news from the hospital
Rotten
Rotten adjective - Having undergone organic breakdown.
Usage example: rotten, smelly meat that should have been thrown out
Nearby Words: rottenness, rottenly
Both words in one sentence
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Once upon a time when things were rotten, Not just food, but also kings were rotten, Everybody kicked the peasants, Things were bad and that ain't good, Then came Robin Hood!
Source: Series / When Things Were Rotten - This comic has a variation, with Rotten Tomatoes reviews instead of good and bad news.
Source: Good News, Bad News - De Matteis is very good at... finding the inner light in any character, no matter how rotten.
Source: Alas, Poor Scrappy
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