Rotten
Rotten adjective - Having undergone organic breakdown.
Severe and rotten are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Severe" instead an adjective "Rotten".
Nearby Words: rottenness, rottenly
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- Cars 2, while it earned a little bit of praise, got hit by a severe case of Sequelitis; it became the first Pixar film to get a Rotten rating on RT (39%), breaking the studio's streak, although it was still financially successful and helped build the franchise, inspiring the Planes spinoff below.
Source: Dueling Works / Film Animated
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