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Definition of rotter in English: rotternoun ˈrɒtəˈrɑdər British dated, informal A cruel, mean, or unkind person. Rosemary had decided that all men were rotters Example sentencesExamples - He was the rotter who sometimes got ahead of me in the Covent Garden gallery queue and took over what I thought of as my seat on the centre gangway of the front row.
- The party-pooping rotters have now left local children in tears at the prospect of facing Christmas without their favourite novelty garden decoration.
- No soap is without its stock rotter, this one appearing in the guise of a male chauvinist pig.
- The dueling scene where we go from hating the rotter to feeling pity for him to hating him again when he finds a way to screw Casanova over was masterly.
- Just as the FBI has its ‘most wanted’ list of criminals, American women have their own ‘most dastardly’ list of unfaithful rotters and cheats.
Synonyms scoundrel, rogue, villain, wretch, reprobate informal beast, pig, swine, rat, creep, bastard, louse, snake, snake in the grass, skunk, dog, weasel, scumbag, heel, stinker, stinkpot, bad lot, nasty piece of work British informal scrote Irish informal spalpeen North American informal rat fink, fink Australian informal dingo informal, dated hound, bounder, blighter vulgar slang son of a bitch, s.o.b., shit dated cad archaic blackguard, dastard, vagabond, knave, varlet
Rhymes blotter, cotta, cottar, dotter, gotta, hotter, jotter, knotter, otter, pelota, plotter, potter, ricotta, spotter, squatter, terracotta, totter, trotter Definition of rotter in US English: rotternounˈrädərˈrɑdər British dated, informal A cruel, stingy, or unkind person. Rosemary had decided that all men were rotters Example sentencesExamples - The dueling scene where we go from hating the rotter to feeling pity for him to hating him again when he finds a way to screw Casanova over was masterly.
- He was the rotter who sometimes got ahead of me in the Covent Garden gallery queue and took over what I thought of as my seat on the centre gangway of the front row.
- Just as the FBI has its ‘most wanted’ list of criminals, American women have their own ‘most dastardly’ list of unfaithful rotters and cheats.
- No soap is without its stock rotter, this one appearing in the guise of a male chauvinist pig.
- The party-pooping rotters have now left local children in tears at the prospect of facing Christmas without their favourite novelty garden decoration.
Synonyms scoundrel, rogue, villain, wretch, reprobate |