nastiness

  • 1Nastiness — Nas ti*ness, n. The quality or state of being nasty; extreme filthness; dirtiness; also, indecency; obscenity. [1913 Webster] The nastiness of Plautus and Aristophanes. Dryden. [1913 Webster] …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 2nastiness — index mischief Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 3nastiness — noun 1) my mother tried to shut herself off from all the nastiness of life Syn: unpleasantness, disagreeableness, offensiveness, vileness, foulness 2) her uncharacteristic nastiness Syn: unkindness, unpleasantness, unfriendliness,… …

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  • 4nastiness — 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 ▪ …

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  • 5nastiness — noun 1. malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty • Syn: ↑cattiness, ↑bitchiness, ↑spite, ↑spitefulness • Derivationally related forms: ↑nasty, ↑spiteful (for: ↑ …

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  • 6nastiness — noun see nasty …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 7nastiness — See nastily. * * * …

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  • 8nastiness — noun a) a lack of cleanliness b) dirt or filth …

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  • 9nastiness — (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… …

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  • 10nastiness — nas·ti·ness || næstɪnɪs / nɑː n. dirtiness, filth; evil, maliciousness; wretchedness, state of being disgusting; severeness, extremeness; obscenity …

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