Ill
Ill noun - That which is morally unacceptable.
Usage example: idealistic people who try to cure all of our society's ills
Nearby Word: illness
Rot
Rot noun - Language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense.
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- Speak Ill of the Dead: Tyrion states that he hopes Cersei has a nice dark hell to rot in when he learns of her death. Squee!
Source: Fanfic / Ned Stark Lives -
While Imperia and Thorick plan to move Prince Gerard to a dungeon where he will rot in obscurity for the rest of his life, she devises a cover story that the prince fell ill and would eventually die, granting his aunt the right to be queen in his place.
Source: Western Animation / The Smurfs - In the Star Trek verse we have the Eugenics Wars of the mid-1990s, the "sanctuary districts" of the early 21st century where the homeless, jobless, and mentally ill were left to rot, and the Postatomic Horror following World War III in the late 21st century.
Source: Trouble from the Past
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