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单词 rotter
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Definition of rotter in English:

rotter

noun 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:

rotter

nounˈrädərˈrɑdər
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
 
 
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