nastiness

Example Sentences

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For Tunstall, what sets Clueless apart from traditional rom-coms and high school dramas is that there isn't a typical villain and there's no nastiness or bad intentions from the main characters.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2025

With this year’s Academy Awards just weeks away, we take a look at notable controversies of the past, some of which perhaps deserve their own statuettes for spite and nastiness: putting the tin in Tinseltown.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2025

Even when Walz delivered his obligatory zingers about Trump and Vance, he did it with humor and without nastiness.

From Salon • Aug. 11, 2024

He’s a fiery competitor and has the necessary nastiness to excel in the trenches.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 23, 2024

She wrote that she was repaying a debt, although knowing Nicasia, I would guess a little nastiness wouldn’t give her mother much pause.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black