rotten (adj.)
- abandoned
- abominable
- amiss
- appalling
- arrant
- atrocious
- awful
- bad
- baneful
- base
- beastly
- bent
- blameworthy
- brackish
- brutal
- bum
- carious
- cloying
- conscienceless
- contaminated
- contemptible
- corroded
- corrupt
- corrupted
- crappy
- criminal
- crooked
- crumbly
- dark
- debased
- debauched
- decadent
- decayed
- deceitful
- decomposed
- decrepit
- degenerate
- degraded
- deplorable
- depraved
- despicable
- detestable
- devious
- dire
- disagreeable
- disgusting
- dishonest
- dishonorable
- displeasing
- dissatisfactory
- dissolute
- doubtful
- dreadful
- dubious
- egregious
- enormous
- evasive
- evil
- fecal
- feculent
- felonious
- fetid
- filthy
- fishy
- flagitious
- flagrant
- flyblown
- foul
- fraudulent
- friable
- frowsty
- frowzy
- fulsome
- funky
- fusty
- gamy
- gangrenous
- grievous
- grim
- gross
- hateful
- heinous
- hideous
- high
- horrendous
- horrible
- horrid
- horrific
- horrifying
- icky
- ill
- ill-gotten
- ill-smelling
- immoral
- indirect
- infamous
- infirm
- iniquitous
- insidious
- lamentable
- loathsome
- lousy
- low
- low-down
- maggoty
- malodorous
- mawkish
- mean
- mephitic
- miasmal
- miasmic
- miserable
- moldy
- monstrous
- mortified
- mouldy
- mucky
- musty
- nasty
- nauseated
- nauseating
- nauseous
- necrotic
- nefarious
- noisome
- notorious
- noxious
- obnoxious
- odious
- odorous
- off
- offensive
- olid
- outrageous
- overripe
- peccant
- perverse
- perverted
- pitiable
- pitiful
- poisonous
- polluted
- poor
- profligate
- punk
- putrescent
- putrid
- questionable
- rancid
- rank
- reasy
- rebarbative
- reechy
- reeking
- regrettable
- reprehensible
- reprobate
- repulsive
- ropy
- rough
- sad
- scabby
- scandalous
- scummy
- scurfy
- scurvy
- shabby
- shady
- shameful
- shameless
- shifty
- shitty
- shocking
- shoddy
- sick
- sickening
- sinister
- slimy
- slippery
- sloppy
- slushy
- smelling
- smelly
- sordid
- sour
- soured
- spoiled
- spoilt
- squalid
- stale
- stinking
- strong
- stuffy
- sulfurous
- suppurative
- suspicious
- tainted
- terrible
- touched
- tragic
- tricky
- turned
- ulcerated
- unclean
- unconscientious
- unconscionable
- underhand
- underhanded
- unethical
- unfirm
- unhappy
- unhealthy
- unpleasant
- unprincipled
- unsatisfactory
- unsavory
- unscrupulous
- unsound
- unspeakable
- unstable
- unsubstantial
- unwell
- up
- venal
- vile
- villainous
- vitiated
- warped
- wicked
- woeful
- wormy
- worst
- worthless
- wretched
- wrong
- yucky
There's small choice in rotten apples.
A goodly apple rotten at the heart:
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.