Rotten and Useless

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Rotten adjective - Extremely unsatisfactory.

Usage example: rotten housing conditions that no one should be forced to tolerate

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Useless and rotten are semantically related. in crummy topic. In some cases you can use "Useless" instead an adjective "Rotten".

Nearby Words: rottenness, rottenly

Useless adjective - Not capable of being put to use or account.

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Rotten and useless are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Rotten" instead an adjective "Useless".

Nearby Words: use, useful, uselessly

This is often the explanation of why a response to a new danger which first appeared at such a remote outpost is so feeble, allowing the threat to swell to the proportions it will later assume: the characters there are a mostly useless and rotten lot.

Source: Reassigned to Antarctica
Norris has spent a lifetime bullying Fanny, making her feel useless while spoiling her other nieces Maria and Julia rotten.

Source: Literature / Mansfield Park
Adults Are Useless: All Wayne has to do to convince anyone that he's 'a good boy' or get his brother into trouble (sometimes both) is put on a sweet voice, Which is made worse by the fact that everybody knows and has seen time and time again just how rotten Wayne is but they continue to fall for it.

Source: Western Animation / The Cramp Twins

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