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
- The man was a nasty curmudgeon.
- The monsters are nasty and evil.
- The debate became nasty, stupid and venal.
- No one is being terribly rancorous or nasty.
- All were vociferous and at times nasty in their comments.
- Very well, then, but I have what you call a nasty one for you.
- Doe forced the one guy to kill the hooker with the nasty strap.
- Among nasty personal attacks, the essence of the matter was lost.
- Doe forced the one guy to kill the hooker with the nasty strap on.
- By nightfall, the scientist is himself afflicted with the nasty boils.
- Plenty of citations exist for the nasty effects of 'Datura' intoxication.
- 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: