nastiness

nastiness
nasty ADJECTIVE (nastier, nastiest) 1) unpleasant, disgusting, or repugnant. 2) spiteful, violent, or bad-tempered. 3) likely to cause or having caused harm; dangerous or serious: a nasty bang on the head.
NOUN (pl. nasties) informal a nasty person or thing.
DERIVATIVES nastily adverb nastiness noun.
ORIGIN of unknown origin.

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  • nastiness — noun see nasty …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • nastiness — See nastily. * * * …   Universalium

  • nastiness — noun a) a lack of cleanliness b) dirt or filth …   Wiktionary

  • nastiness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun A desire to harm others or to see others suffer: despitefulness, ill will, malevolence, malice, maliciousness, malignancy, malignity, meanness, poisonousness, spite, spitefulness, venomousness, viciousness. See… …   English dictionary for students

  • nastiness — nas·ti·ness || næstɪnɪs / nɑː n. dirtiness, filth; evil, maliciousness; wretchedness, state of being disgusting; severeness, extremeness; obscenity …   English contemporary dictionary

  • nastiness — n. 1. Filth, filthiness, dirtiness, foulness, impurity, uncleanness, pollution, defilement, squalor. 2. Obscenity, smuttiness, indecency, ribaldry, grossness …   New dictionary of synonyms

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