单词 | rotten-boned |
释义 | > as lemmasrotten-boned rotten-boned adj. (a) having decaying bones; (b) figurative weak; lacking (moral) strength; corrupt. ΚΠ 1887 J. Milligan Vocab. Dial. Aboriginal Tribes Tasmania in E. M. Curr Austral. Race III. App. 634 Aged (literally, rotten-boned), Tinna-trioura-tick. 1912 D. H. Lawrence Let. 3 July (1962) I. 134 My cursed, rotten-boned, pappy hearted countrymen, why was I sent to them. 1994 Excalibur 28 Sept. 13/5 Society was dropped onto our shoulder prematurely aged and rotten-boned. < as lemmas |
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