Practice adjectives related to being bad in your ESL class with this song, Rotten to the core by Sofia Carson. The adjectives which appear in these song lyrics are: bad, evil, glad, dirty, callous, useless, misunderstood, wicked, rotten, unique, original & unusual.
Note: although we are often told that the comparative and superlative of “bad” is “worse” and “worst”, meaning “of poorer/poorest quality/standard”, the regular forms “badder” and “baddest” do exist in English, meaning “more or the most evil”.
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Lyrics
They say I’m trouble
They say I’m bad
They say I’m evil
And that makes me glad
A dirty no good
Down to the bone
Your worst nightmare
Can’t take me home
So I got some mischief,
In my blood
Can you blame me?
I never got no love
They think I’m callous
A low life hood
I feel so useless
Misunderstood (Hey, yeah)
Mirror, mirror on the wall
Who’s the baddest of them all?
Welcome to my wicked world
Wicked world
I’m rotten to the core
Rotten to the core
I’m rotten to the core
Who could ask for more?
I’m nothing like the kid next,
Like the kid next door
I’m rotten to the…
I’m rotten to the… Core
Listen up now!
Call me a schemer
Call me a freak
How can you say that?
I’m just unique
What me a traitor?
Ain’t got your back?
Are we not friends?
What’s up with that?
So I’m a misfit
So I’m a flirt
I broke your heart
I made you hurt
Past is past
Forgive, forget
The truth is,
You ain’t seen nothin’ yet!
Mirror, mirror on the wall
Who’s the baddest of them all?
Welcome to my wicked world
Wicked world
I’m rotten to the core
Rotten to the core
I’m rotten to the core
Who could ask for more?
I’m nothing like the kid next,
Like the kid next door
I’m rotten to the…
I’m rotten to the… Core
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Original
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Unusual
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
You can say what you want,
But we will always be…
Rotten to the core
Rotten to the core
Rotten to the core,
Who could ask for more?
I’m nothing like the kid next,
Like the kid next door
I’m rotten to the…
I’m rotten to the…
I’m rotten to the core
Rotten to the core
I’m rotten to the core,
Who could ask for more?
I’m nothing like the kid next,
Like the kid next door
I’m rotten to the…
I’m rotten to the… Core
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