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nasty adjective. ['nɑ:sti] LME.
[Origin unkn.]
Foul, filthy, dirty, esp. to a disgusting degree; offensive through filth or dirt. Now freq. a contextual use of sense 4. LME.
W. Spalding Streets which are narrow, steep, and exceedingly nasty.
b. Morally unclean; indecent, obscene. E17.
E. Blishen Our lavatories simply asked to have nasty things written on the walls. M. Allingham One doesn't have to have a nasty mind to wonder.
Offensive to smell or taste; unpalatable, nauseating. M16.
Law Times There was a nasty smell about the premises. P. Lomas If the medicine is to be efficacious, it must have a nasty taste.
Of weather etc.: foul, dirty, wet, stormy. M17.
Henry Fielding It is a cursed nasty morning.
gen. Offensive; disagreeable, unpleasant, objectionable, annoying; in poor taste. E18.
R. Christiansen In 1815, most of musical Europe still identified Beethoven with nasty senseless noise.
Difficult to deal with or get rid of, dangerous; having unpleasant results, rather serious. E19.
E. Hemingway A business enemy had been killed in a particularly nasty motor accident. I. Murdoch Matthew got a nasty crack on the head.
Ill-natured, bad-tempered, spiteful. E19.
M. Angelou The nasty children would have something new to tease me about. T. Mallon There is..pleasure to be had in hearing nasty things well said about other people.
Phrases: a nasty piece of work, a nasty bit of work, a nasty piece of goods, a nasty bit of goods an unpleasant or contemptible person. a nasty taste in the mouth: see TASTE noun1. cheap and nasty: see CHEAP adjective & adverb. something nasty in the woodshed a traumatic experience or a concealed unpleasantness in a person's background.