nasty

IPA: nˈæsti

noun

  • (informal) Something nasty.
  • (euphemistic, slang, preceded by "the") Sexual intercourse.
  • A video nasty.
  • A hamlet in Great Munden parish, East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL3524).

adjective

  • (now chiefly US) Dirty, filthy.
  • Contemptible, unpleasant (of a person).
  • Objectionable, unpleasant (of a thing); repellent, offensive.
  • Indecent or offensive; obscene, lewd.
  • Spiteful, unkind.
  • (chiefly UK) Awkward, difficult to navigate; dangerous.
  • (chiefly UK) Grave or dangerous (of an accident, illness etc.).
  • (slang, chiefly US) Formidable, terrific; wicked.
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Examples of "nasty" in Sentences

  • Very well, then, but I have what you call a nasty one for you.
  • Stuart blames her loss on what she called a nasty, dirty campaign full of lies.
  • Police are investigating what they described as a nasty and cowardly attack on the bus driver in Lyall Bay around 9. 20pm last night.
  • He connected them with what he called the nasty newfangled method of leaving a cloth on the table, as though to warn people that they were not to sit long.
  • The Guardian's US journalists on Twitter In the UK, the rightwing Tories worked to ditch what they called the 'nasty party' image Did they export it over here?
  • And after her there was Billy Pearce, with one of his regular sore throats and his rather bad - tempered mum, and Mrs. Platt from the shop with what she called a nasty sharp pain inside.
  • "I'm feeling very, very, _very_ well, my Lord Dook, Mr. V.V. On'y I decided I'd spend to-day lazyin 'at my writin'-desk, readin' over my billy-doox from peers of the rellum, 'stead of working my hands and legs off in that nasty, _nasty_, NASTY --"
  • For instance: at a rustic dance in that state a Kentuckian said to an acquaintance of mine, in reply to his asking the name of a very fine girl, "That's my sister, stranger; and I flatter myself that she shows the _nastiest_ ankle in all Kentuck" -- _Unde derivatur_, from the constant rifle-practice in that state, a good shot or a pretty shot is termed also a nasty shot, because it would make a _nasty_ wound:

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