Rotten - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 10/03/2023

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Rotten.

3 letter answer(s) to rotten

BAD
  1. (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition; "bad meat"; "a refrigerator full of spoilt food"
  2. below average in quality or performance; "a bad chess player"; "a bad recital"
  3. capable of harming; "bad air"; "smoking is bad for you"
  4. characterized by wickedness or immorality; "led a very bad life"
  5. feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone; "felt regretful over his vanished youth"; "regretful over mistakes she had made"; "he felt bad about breaking the vase"
  6. feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad'); "my throat feels bad"; "she felt bad all over"; "he was feeling tough after a restless night"
  7. having undesirable or negative qualities; "a bad report card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"; "a bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad cut"; "bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the reviews were bad"; "the pay is bad

5 letter answer(s) to rotten

LOUSY
  1. infested with lice; "burned their lousy clothes"
  2. very bad; "a lousy play"; "it's a stinking world"
  3. vile; despicable; "a dirty (or lousy) trick"; "a filthy traitor"
MOLDY
  1. covered with or smelling of mold; "moldy bread"; "a moldy (or musty) odor"

7 letter answer(s) to rotten

NOISOME
  1. causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"
  2. offensively malodorous; "a foul odor"; "the kitchen smelled really funky"
  3. Smelly
SPOILED
  1. (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition; "bad meat"; "a refrigerator full of spoilt food"
  2. having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or oversolicitous attention; "a spoiled child"

6 letter answer(s) to rotten

PUTRID
  1. in an advanced state of decomposition and having a foul odor; "horrible like raw and putrid flesh"- Somerset Maugham
  2. morally corrupt or evil; "the putrid atmosphere of the court"
  3. of or relating to or attended by putrefaction; "putrid decomposition"
RANCID
  1. (used of decomposing oils or fats) having a rank smell or taste usually due to a chemical change or decomposition; "rancid butter"; "rancid bacon"
  2. smelling of fermentation or staleness
SMELLY
  1. offensively malodorous; "a foul odor"; "the kitchen smelled really funky"
SORDID
  1. Dirty
  2. foul and run-down and repulsive; "a flyblown bar on the edge of town"; "a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town"; "squalid living conditions"; "sordid shantytowns"
  3. meanly avaricious and mercenary; "sordid avarice"; "sordid material interests"
  4. morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"- James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal"
  5. unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign"

Other crossword clues with similar answers to 'Rotten'

Place cleared, but rotting
Police chief did this bad?
Policemen initially hurried off
Poor book promotion
Poor brandy is regularly thrown away
Presided over police department that's rotten
Punk
Rank and rotten
Rank in smell or taste
Rank one can change in a way
Rank outsiders from Ireland managed to overcome City earlier
Rank so absorbed in expressions of ego
Really bad
Really good pop group ditching name
Reeking
Reprimand to a dog
Repugnant
Rich old girl to make bet?
Rotten dessert - eating three as starter
Rotten fish is sent back
Rotten place requiring short journey
Rotten set free
Scolding word
Scolding word to a dog
Seamy
See us having yen to be very bad
Seedy
Set free? That's rotten!
Severe
Shameful, dirty
Sickening
Silly, taking me for one that’s foul
Sleazy
Sleazy soprano cheated, winning gold
Slutty
Smelling bad
Smelling offensively
Soldiers arrested by police officers around base
Sour
Special honey extremely likely to be fragrant
Spoiled
Squalid
Squalid type briefly performed
Stale
Stale, sour
Start of last over — our players end in ignominy, being dreadful
Stinking
Stinko
Stinky
Terribly high honour invested in undesirable element of broadcast media
Turned - foul-smelling
Turned - malodorous
Turned - off
Turned and set free
Turned off
Two-bit
Uncooperative
Unpleasant feeling arising after change of heart
Unpleasant gang of criminals briefly returned to infiltrate racket
Unpleasant rumour about high honour
Unpleasant, disagreeable
Unpleasantly smelling
Urine's a little vile
Very unpleasant love lives in Alaskan city
Vile
Was chief of detectives: rank?
Was plain-clothes police supremo bad?
What Detective Chief Superintendent typically did to get rank
What drug smuggler did heartlessly is foul
Wicked
Word to a dog
Worked with detectives to get rank

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