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adjective

Nasty adj. (compar. nastier; superl. nastiest)

Offensively filthy; very dirty, foul, or defiled; disgusting; nauseous.

Hence, loosely: Offensive; disagreeable; unpropitious; wet; drizzling; as, a nasty rain, day, sky.

Characterized by obscenity; indecent; indelicate; gross; filthy.

Vicious; offensively ill-tempered; insultingly mean; spiteful; as, a nasty disposition.

Difficult to deal with; troublesome; as, he fell of his bike and got a nasty bruise on his knee. (slang)

Synonyms: Nasty, Filthy, Foul, Dirty. Anything nasty is usually wet or damp as well as filthy or dirty, and disgusts by its stickiness or odor; but filthy and foul imply that a thing is filled or covered with offensive matter, while dirty describes it as defiled or sullied with dirt of any kind; as, filthy clothing, foul vapors, etc.

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Etymology of 'Nasty'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Nasty" Quotes from Famous Books

... it out and examined it. "I'm going across to see this gent," he announced. "It's convenient, 'im living so close. Perhaps he'll 'ave a word to say about this 'ere disease. Fair spread over Birmingham, so they say. It would be nasty if any bloke was responsible for it. Good day to yer." He opened the door slowly, and glanced back at us standing in the middle of the room watching him. "Look 'ere," he said swiftly, "what did 'e mean, saying I was never going to die and——" The light from ...

— The Blue Germ • Martin Swayne

... much the same; While George, who was in part to blame, Received, you will regret to hear, A nasty lump ...

— Cautionary Tales for Children • Hilaire Belloc

... "A very nasty looking affair," returned the investigator. "Osborne has been good enough to let me glance about," ...

— Ashton-Kirk, Investigator • John T. McIntyre

... "A nasty raw day, Kate," she remarked as we emerged from the hothouse into the moist, heavy air. "How I hate the country! except whilst the strawberries are ripe. Let's go back to the house, and read with our feet on the fender ...

— Kate Coventry - An Autobiography • G. J. Whyte-Melville

... increased violence the sounder seeming like the roll of a drum. I think I broke him about ten times and finally he said, "For heaven's sake go wake up the day man. You're nothing but a ham." Strangely enough I could take all of his nasty remarks without any trouble while the order almost completely stumped me. However, I finally succeeded in putting it all down, repeated it back to him, ...

— Danger Signals • John A. Hill and Jasper Ewing Brady

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