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  2. rotten to the core. Thoroughly and totally bad, evil, or corrupt. The defense attorney refused to take the case when he realized the criminal was rotten to the core, unrepentantly boasting about his heinous crimes.

  3. If a person or organization is rotten to the core, they behave in a way that is not honest or moral: The whole legal system is rotten to the core. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Morally wrong and evil. abhorrent.

  4. Thoroughly bad, as in It seems that this police unit is rotten to the core, involved in numerous extortion schemes. The noun core here denotes the central part or heart of anything or anyone. The idiom was first recorded in 1804.

  5. You can use "Rotten to the Core" to describe someone or something that is completely corrupt or morally bad. It emphasizes the depth and extent of their corruption or immorality. For example, if you want to express your strong disapproval of a dishonest politician, you might say, 'He's not just a little corrupt, he's rotten to the core.'

  6. be rotten to the core. To be entirely bad, evil, or corrupt. The defense attorney refused to take the case when he realized the criminal was rotten to the core, unrepentantly boasting about his heinous crimes. That company is just rotten to the coreI wouldn't be surprised if all the employees were embezzling money! See also: core, rotten, to.

  7. rotten to the core meaning, definition, what is rotten to the core: extremely dishonest: Learn more.

  8. Rotten To The Core definition: Completely rotten.

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