rottingly
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]rottingly (comparative more rottingly, superlative most rottingly)
- In a rotting manner.
- 1916, Lucas Malet (Mrs. Mary St. Leger Harrison), “The Land of Regrets”, in Damaris: A Novel, London: Hutchinson & Co. […], →OCLC, page 175:
- No, my dear boy, make yourself easy. They dare not lay a finger on me. As far as local unrest is concerned, there is no fear but that I shall be spared to die stupidly, rottingly, of old age in my bed.