Really rotten (4)

I believe the answer is:

evil

(Other definitions for evil that I've seen before include "Live kind of badness" , "Profoundly wicked" , "Extremely bad" , "Moral depravity" , "Satanic" .)

I've seen this clue in the LA Times.

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