Clues for the word "ROTTEN"
We've had 71 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 150 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on December 22, 2025.
Definition of rotten
- a. - Having rotted; putrid; decayed; as, a rotten apple; rotten meat.
- a. - Offensive to the smell; fetid; disgusting.
- a. - Not firm or trusty; unsound; defective; treacherous; unsafe; as, a rotten plank, bone, stone.
Referring Clues
- Way past ripe
- Rank
- No-good
- Spoiled
- Raising a stink?
- Wretchedly bad
- Suspicious, as in Hamlet's Denmark
- Despicable
- Wretchedly bad
- No longer good
- Past its prime, and then some
- Bad
- Miserable
- No good
- Beneath contempt
- Morally despicable
- Bad to the core
- ___ Tomatoes: film review website
- ___ Tomatoes: film review website
- Corrupt
- Putrid
- Decayed
- Decomposed
- Turned
- No longer edible
- Mean
- Front man Johnny of the Sex Pistols
- Definitely not ripe
- Terrible
- Not fit to be eaten
- Evil
- Obviously decayed
- Gone off
- Spoiled, as food
- Lacking scruples
- Decaying
- Sex Pistols' Johnny
- '01 Smashing Pumpkins greatest hits comp "___ Apples"
- Very bad
- Reportedly, any abstemious soldiers must get promoted in rank
- It's sheer nonsense taking time off
- Off to rent afresh
- To rent, maybe, is not good
- Bad ways to trot, possibly
- Decayed - corrupt
- It's bad and seems right over the top to most men
- Row in park is unpleasant
- When decayed, hopeless to rent
- Off
- Like Humpty Dumpty's luck
- Sex Pistol = 2 10
- Off to get rhubarb before tucking in!
- Lifted supermarket right off
- Awful
- ___ to the core (evil)
- Way beyond bad
- Atrocious
- Hamlet's "horrendous"
- Awful nonsense – catch up!
- Decomposing
- Suffering from decay
- Bad two points on the trot, perhaps
- Not just rank
- Like gross fruit
- Really not good anymore
- Far from fresh
- LazyTown antagonist and internet celebrity Robbie
- Irredeemable
- Like a bad apple
- Raising a stink?
- ___ to the core
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 22, 2025
- Daily Quick - October 24, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 02, 2025
- Daily Quick - July 16, 2025
- Daily Quick - May 18, 2025
- Daily Quick - April 02, 2025
- LA Times - February 05, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 17, 2025
- Daily Quick - December 16, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - November 19, 2024
- Daily American - October 06, 2024
- Mirror Mini - October 01, 2024
- Daily Quick - September 29, 2024
- LA Times - September 18, 2024
- Daily Quick - August 22, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - June 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 04, 2024
- Daily Quick - January 24, 2024
- Penny Dell Sunday - November 26, 2023
- Daily Quick - October 24, 2023
- Mirror Mini - October 01, 2023
- LA Times - September 29, 2023
- Daily Quick - July 16, 2023
- Penny Dell Sunday - May 21, 2023
- Daily Quick - May 18, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 08, 2023
- Daily Quick - April 02, 2023
- Daily Quick - December 16, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 01, 2022
- USA Today - November 26, 2022
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