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adjective

Nasty adj. (compar. nastier; superl. nastiest)

Offensively filthy; very dirty, foul, or defiled; disgusting; nauseous.

Hence, loosely: Offensive; disagreeable; unpropitious; wet; drizzling; as, a nasty rain, day, sky.

Characterized by obscenity; indecent; indelicate; gross; filthy.

Vicious; offensively ill-tempered; insultingly mean; spiteful; as, a nasty disposition.

Difficult to deal with; troublesome; as, he fell of his bike and got a nasty bruise on his knee. (slang)

Synonyms: Nasty, Filthy, Foul, Dirty. Anything nasty is usually wet or damp as well as filthy or dirty, and disgusts by its stickiness or odor; but filthy and foul imply that a thing is filled or covered with offensive matter, while dirty describes it as defiled or sullied with dirt of any kind; as, filthy clothing, foul vapors, etc.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... silly, too, with his radical nonsense, paying a shilling a week to a nasty Union just for nothing. Still he means well, and there ain't a man who works harder for his wife and children;—that I will say of him. And if he do ...

— Phineas Finn - The Irish Member • Anthony Trollope

... haven't my temperament. No, the advantage is all mine." Gray's tone changed abruptly. "For your own good remove your hand from the neighborhood of that drawer. I am too close to you for a gun-play. Good! Now about that one word from you. You won't speak it, for that would force me to utter nasty truths about you, and you would suffer more than I, this being your home town where you are respected. And the truth is ...

— Flowing Gold • Rex Beach

... time. Of course the Tartars will consider this a victory, and will he elated by it; but perhaps this is a good thing, as it may induce them to face us on the open. The ground on which they were found is firm and fit for cavalry, and is about four miles from the Peiho Forts. This is a very nasty place. The country around is all under water, and it is impossible to get through it except by moving along the one or two causeways that intersect it. The military are, therefore, glad to find sound footing at no ...

— Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin • James, Eighth Earl of Elgin

... us to doubt Jim Hawkins; but we were alarmed for his safety. With the men in the temper they were in, it seemed an even chance if we should see the lad again. We ran on deck. The pitch was bubbling in the seams; the nasty stench of the place turned me sick; if ever a man smelt fever and dysentery, it was in that abominable anchorage. The six scoundrels were sitting grumbling under a sail in the forecastle; ashore we could see the gigs made fast, and a man sitting in each, hard by where ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... you, Liputin; whenever there's anything nasty going on you're always on the spot taking a leading part in it," ...

— The Possessed - or, The Devils • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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