Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being filthy; filthiness; dirtiness; filthy habits or condition.
- noun Disgusting taste; nauseousness.
- noun Disagreeableness; unpleasantness: as, the general nastiness of the weather.
- noun Meanness; dishonorableness: as, the nastiness of the trick.
- noun That which is filthy; filth.
- noun Moral filth or filthiness; grossness or indecency; obscenity.
- noun Synonyms Foulness, defilement, pollution.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being nasty; extreme filthness; dirtiness; also, indecency; obscenity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable a
lack ofcleanliness - noun US ,(
uncountable )dirt orfilth - noun uncountable
indecency orcorruption - noun countable an
unpleasant ordisagreeable action, taste or smell
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse
- noun malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty
- noun the quality of being unpleasant
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Examples
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Obama. will suceed dispite all the nastiness from the far right
Deeds tries to shake up Virginia campaign with big speech 2009
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The current nastiness is more a product of the political theories of personal destruction that the left worked the early 2000s with, and that the Republicans have gleefully picked up.
Matthew Yglesias » Polarization + Supermajority = Disaster 2010
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The current nastiness is more a product of the political theories of personal destruction that the left worked the early 2000s with, and that the Republicans have gleefully picked up.
Matthew Yglesias » Polarization + Supermajority = Disaster 2010
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It takes courage to put it out there in the first place but then to step back far enough to deconstruct and come to terms with all of this nastiness is truly admirable.
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The current nastiness is more a product of the political theories of personal destruction that the left worked the early 2000s with,
Matthew Yglesias » Polarization + Supermajority = Disaster 2010
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Irrational, philosophically uneducated (calling four of the most popular philosophers peddlers of irrationality and then holding up Ayn Rand of all people), homophobic, heterosexist, backward, and perhaps s few things equal in nastiness to the words you directed against me and every like me.
MIND MELD: Books That Hold Special Places in Our Hearts and On Our Shelves 2009
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I certainly don't expect my friends to pretend that they are perfect and without flaw, but gratuitous self-directed nastiness is not the same thing, and not okay.
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The hatred and nastiness is too much to stomach and as a Democrat I hate to say it but the Obama supporters are the nastiest.
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Being a Viet Nam era vet, I, like many other men and women my age, well remember coming home to insults and nastiness from the American public at the time.
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Uh, Venus, not sure how any of that nastiness is supposed to help.
For $5, Eat With Clinton - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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