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Main Entry:	nasty [nas-tee] Show IPA/ˈnæsti/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	disgusting, offensive
Synonyms:	awful, beastly, bum, dirty, disagreeable, fierce, filthy, foul, gross, grubby, hellish, horrible, horrid, icky, impure, loathsome, lousy, malodorous, mephitic, murderous, nauseating, noisome, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, ornery, outrageous, poison, polluted, raunchy, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rough, sickening, soiled, squalid, stinking, tough, unappetizing, unclean, uncleanly, ungodly, unholy, unpleasant, vile, vulgar, yucky
Antonyms:	great, magnificent, pleasing, wonderful

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	nasty
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	bad-tempered, mean
Synonyms:	abusive, annoying, beastly, critical, cruel, despicable, disagreeable, distasteful, evil, fierce, hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, ornery, ruthless, sarcastic, sordid, spiteful, squalid, unkind, unpleasant, vicious, vile, wicked
Antonyms:	agreeable, friendly, happy, kind, pleasant

Main Entry:	nasty
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	injurious, dangerous
Synonyms:	bad, critical, damaging, harmful, noxious, painful, poisonous, serious, severe, ugly
Antonyms:	aiding, assisting, helpful, helping, safe

Example Sentences

Southwestern has suffered from a revolving leadership and nasty battles between administrators, faculty members, and students.

There you have it: the ingredients of a nasty crash.

Movie mummies are known for two things: fabulous riches and a nasty curse that brings treasure hunters to a bad end.

Southwestern has suffered from a revolving leadership and nasty battles between administrators, faculty members, and students.

There you have it: the ingredients of a nasty crash.

Movie mummies are known for two things: fabulous riches and a nasty curse that brings treasure hunters to a bad end.

But please, continue to believe that labeling other people with nasty adjectives is a rational argument.

They could not recall seeing such a nasty case of the flu, particularly in a child so young.

It's practically miraculous how pressing can quickly transform nasty fruit into delicious oil.

Scientists are working on an electronic nose that sniffs out nasty bacteria in blood samples.

Japan provides a nasty warning of what can happen when boom turns to bust.

They don't remove enough blood to harm their host, but their bites can cause nasty infections and disease.

At outside social events, he was sweet and mild mannered and had no memory of his nasty outbursts.

When they arrive and find it's hidden away, they complain and write nasty letters.

If you get those nasty fine spines in your hand, she says, you can remove them by painting over the area with rubber cement.

Recovering alcoholics are often burdened by memories of the nasty things they did while wasted.

Each of his eight children, four of whom have fled to neighbouring countries, is nasty in his-or her-own way.

These parotoid glands contain a nasty poison that irritates the mouths of some predators and often the skin of humans.

Physicians need to tell pts that stAtins will not help you unless you change those nasty habits.

Alas, she soon found that the nasty rumors about him were all too true.

Raccoons are particularly nasty, and they're particularly clever about using their little nasty hands to get into your coop.

The pistol is surprisingly heavy and has a nasty kick.

National testing, so feared and loathed when it was mandated a decade ago, is doing its nasty work: exposing weaknesses.

Earthquake faults have a nasty way of combining patience with impulsiveness.

Most people have one somewhere: a nasty scar from an old injury.

They ate, chatted, held spontaneous teach-ins and occasionally nasty fights.

Yet nasty as these numbers are, they should not lead the government to change its policy.

It emits a nasty scent which attracts egg-laying flies.

The owner shoots the bird a nasty glare as he hangs up, mutters about being fooled again and stalks out of the room.

Despite a nasty recession, the personal computer revolution was in full swing.

Before long you'll be creating nasty stunts that you once thought were inconceivable.

To avoid a potentially nasty cleanup, students are deprived of food for four hours before entering the experimental chamber.

Shortly you'll be taking on nasty tricks that you once concluded were out of the question.

Think how different this case is from what happens in rabies, another nasty infection.

Before long you'll be doing nasty tricks that you once concluded were inconceivable.

In recent years, doctors have discovered more about how these nasty headaches occur--and how to dull the pain.

The laws of physics and light have the nasty habit of getting in the way.

Take the shield bug-also known as the stinkbug for the nasty smelling liquid it spews when attacked.

Burning coal is nasty business, concentrating all kinds of toxic metals and resulting in potentially deadly fly ash.

Just before the end of that day, the parent has to tell the nasty little kid to stop.

Combined with the traditional emphasis on nature's nasty side, this taboo ensured that these studies went largely ignored.

Hopefully there will be an article posted soon on new treatments for chronic cynicism and a nasty temperament.

Schick decided there was something nasty in the sweat of menstruating women.

It also suggests why sometimes simply putting the wrong foot forward can lead to a nasty break.

And so they can see how bacteria have evolved from harmless strains into really nasty ones again and again and again.

Just make sure there is no nasty by product of the process.

Poor sanitation can foster transmission of all sorts of nasty bacterial bugs.

Now that we're in the decade of the nasty crawl, what political approach is best for getting us out of.

Blocking chronic pain, without narcotic drugs and nasty side effects, was a.

Weeks later, as a particularly nasty winter melted into a flood, the news media was back.

The federal government is spending millions to combat a nasty plant.

Long maligned as nasty scavengers, hyenas turn out to be protective parents and accomplished hunters.

First, you are currently a nasty pixilated teaser used to attract buyers before.

If the container isn't sealed, you might get some nasty bacteria from the.

The trouble with frozen conflicts is that they have a nasty habit of turning hot.

The more toxic frogs are so nasty that predators quickly learn to avoid anything that remotely resembles them, she explained.

Note the veggie detritus that they've dragged back under the second coop to gnaw on with their nasty rat teeth.

Easy to set with the wheel-driven interface, a range of pleasant or downright nasty.

He wasn't as nasty as you describe, but the things that came out of his mouth were shocking.

The scope for nasty spillovers is increased by direct linkages.

She's even picked up a nasty habit of eating her own feces.

The other to a room with something nasty in it, possibly involving torture.

It's much harder to laugh off a nasty remark when you lack job security or the face by your name is puke-green or sickly purple.

The euro zone is now threatened by a sovereign credit crunch nasty enough to plunge entire economies into misery.

The beasts regarded these new vehicles with intense suspicion and had the nasty habit of rearing and running in their presence.

Nasty behavior, but not intense enough to be considered a serious grievance.

Many still envision them as loners toiling in their garrets, perhaps with a nasty cough.

Hydrogen is used by fuel cells to generate electricity without generating those nasty greenhouse gases.

Those nasty comments will come up in the report as well.

He eventually recovered from the nasty woulds and even withstood a couple of bouts of flu to eventually complete his quarantine.

That's a lot of toxic chemicals and nasty metals that you really, really don't want leaching into the water supply.

When one particularly nasty specimen called turtle weed.

She unpacked a tale of a merciless teaching load, apathetic students who bullied professors, and nasty colleagues.

Thus, charcoal is surprisingly effective in removing nasty smells.

Uggh that was a nasty on campus day so so unpleasant.

There's nothing mellow about pot smokers, they go up and down in nasty mood swings between highs.

Replacement caps and nasty artist-decorated versions are also available.

Yet other evidence suggests that supermarkets' allegedly nasty habits have had quite the opposite effect.

It must be said that his nasty tone betrays insecurity and suggests maybe he's not really all that sure of himself.

Players go up against several nasty monsters in their quest.

It is has not quite crashed-but the aftershocks could still be nasty.

It does have a nasty withdrawal that lasts about a week.

People who have a lot of it tend to get nasty with lawyers.

If you happen to be an elk, it makes for a nasty neighbourhood.

Because a new study shows that cigarettes are contaminated with a bevy of nasty bugs, including some that cause disease.

It's a nasty disease, and there isn't an effective treatment.

Including the doctor's office and the hospital, where especially nasty bugs can be lurking.

Also fluoride is not inert, and it binds with iron and al for some nasty compunds to damage neurons.

There's nothing good about too much rain, floods, and nasty weather.

Fluorine is nasty enough that getting it to react with carbon should be a nice experiment to try under a fume hood.

It's a wonder that it even works, let alone that it works time after time without those blades having a nasty crash.

Main Entry:	abrasive
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	irritating in manner
Synonyms:	annoying, biting, caustic, cutting, galling, hard to take, hateful, hurtful, nasty, rough, rubbing the wrong way, sharp, spiky, unpleasant
Antonyms:	likeable, pleasant, pleasing

Main Entry:	acid
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	bitter in words or behavior
Synonyms:	acerbic, biting, caustic, cutting, dry, harsh, hateful, hurtful, mordant, nasty, offensive, sarcastic, sharp, stinging, trenchant, vitriolic
Antonyms:	kind, nice

Main Entry:	averse
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	opposing
Synonyms:	afraid, allergic, antagonistic, antipathetic, contrary, disinclined, disliking, having no use for, hesitant, hostile, ill-disposed, indisposed, inimical, loath, nasty, perverse, reluctant, uneager, unfavorable, unfriendly, unwilling
Notes:	aversion is something that originates from within, whereas adversity is something that originates from without; adverse is usually applied to situations while averse is used to describe a person's attitude averse means reluctant or disinclined; adverse means hostile and antagonistic
Antonyms:	caring, liking, loving, sympathetic

Main Entry:	awful
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	very bad; terrible
Synonyms:	abominable, alarming, appalling, atrocious, deplorable, depressing, dire, disgusting, distressing, dreadful, fearful, frightful, ghastly, grody, gross, gruesome, grungy, harrowing, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrific, horrifying, nasty*, offensive, raunchy, repulsive, shocking, stinking, synthetic, tough, ugly, unpleasant, unsightly
Antonyms:	beautiful, good, ok, pleasing

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	beastly
Part of Speech:	adverb
Definition:	offensive
Synonyms:	awful, disagreeable, disgusting, foul, gross, mean, nasty, revolting, rotten, terrible, unpleasant, vile
Antonyms:	good, inoffensive, kind, nice

Main Entry:	black
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	dirty
Synonyms:	dingy, filthy, foul, grimy, grubby, impure, nasty, soiled, sooty, spotted, squalid, stained, unclean, uncleanly
Antonyms:	clean

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