nasty

• I hate Rosalind--nasty, smirking, conceited thing!" —  About Peggy Saville
• Your temper's downright nasty, my lad. —  Fire Island Being the Adventures of Uncertain Naturalists in an Unknown Track
• "He's a Frenchman, and Frenchmen are all alike--nasty, dirty-looking beggars Well, I thought as he brought us down in the cabin here, and gave us that warm drink and the bread and butter, what a pity it was that French and English should ever fight and kill one another Yah! —  Devon Boys A Tale of the North Shore
• "Why don't you tell me what you mean Mercer was silent I say Well You're not going to give him anything nasty, are you Yes Oh You wait and see But you mustn't; it wouldn't do Wouldn't it? —  Burr Junior
• Its food is rather nasty--water-slugs and the like,--but it is itself as fat as an ortolan, "almost melts in the hand_." —  Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds

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