Nasty
['nɑːstɪ] or ['næsti]
Definition
(adj.) exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent; 'a nasty problem'; 'a good man to have on your side in a tight situation' .
(adj.) offensive or even (of persons) malicious; 'in a nasty mood'; 'a nasty accident'; 'a nasty shock'; 'a nasty smell'; 'a nasty trick to pull'; 'Will he say nasty things at my funeral?'- Ezra Pound .
Typist: Michael--From WordNet
Definition
(superl.) Offensively filthy; very dirty, foul, or defiled; disgusting; nauseous.
(superl.) Hence, loosely: Offensive; disagreeable; unpropitious; wet; drizzling; as, a nasty rain, day, sky.
(superl.) Characterized by obcenity; indecent; indelicate; gross; filthy.
Checker: Seymour
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Filthy, foul, unclean, impure, dirty, polluted, denied, nauseous, disgusting, sickening, loathsome, offensive, repulsive, squalid.[2]. Obscene, smutty, gross, indelicate, lewd, indecent, ribald, loose.
Typist: Shelley
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Fool, offensive, odious, disagreeable, indelicate, impure, gross, unclean,obscene
ANT:Nice, pleasant, sweet, savory, agreeable, pure
Typist: Lycurgus
Definition
adj. dirty: filthy: obscene: disagreeable to the taste or smell: difficult to deal with: ill-natured: nauseous.—adv. Nas′tily.—n. Nas′tiness.
Editor: Trudy
Examples
- But I can't bear to see them dirty and nasty. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Gurt kept close beside Maurice, fighting like the old sea-dog he was, and got a nasty stab in the thigh, which brought him to the ground. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- No,' replied Mr. Limbkins; 'at least, as it's a nasty business, we think you ought to take something less than the premium we offered. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Patches of nasty ooze floated, yellow-white, on the dead surface of the water. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He declared that the foreign bodies were ugly, nasty, brutal. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The Duke of York talks in a very nasty way, said Fred Bentinck, I--I, for my part, hate all immodest conversation. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The father hesitated, he was in a nasty position. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- There would be countless more aeroplanes, bigger and much nastier bombs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There's bound to be, Mr. Jackson continued, the nastiest kind of a cleaning up. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The subsistence which they find there is so scanty, that they are eager to fish up the nastiest garbage thrown overboard from any European ship. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Typed by Agatha