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Former President Rodrigo Duterte had described many members of the national police, numbering more than 230,000 nationwide, as “rotten to the core,” although he ordered them to enforce his anti-drugs crackdown that led to the killings of thousands of mostly poor suspects.

Backing abolition, Katie Kendrick, the founder of National Leasehold Campaign called the current system "rotten to the core".

That was a recognition of the fact that Mexico’s old-guard, pro-government union system was rotten to the core and had artificially held down wages for decades.

Her year-long review prompted a strong reaction, with the mother of murdered black teenager Stephen Lawrence saying the force was "rotten to the core".

The Q&A covered so much more, but many glommed onto the perceived slights against her current production, with “1776” co-director Jeffrey Page posting an indirect Facebook post to a “nameless person” whom he called “ungrateful and unwise” and “rotten to the core,” among other comments.