Rottenness

Envy is like rottenness of the bones.

The kennel was stagnant and filthy. The very rats, which here and there lay putrefying in its rottenness, were hideous with famine.

The track was further weakened by the too wide spacing of the sleepers, most of which "were in the last stage of rottenness."

Slowly Matilda sat down. Oh, the rottenness of it all! The unfairness! How dare they expel her for something she hadn't done!