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nasty English

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What does nasty mean?
Definitions in simple English

nasty

If something is nasty it is very bad. I've never camped in the Italian Alps, but the weather must be pretty nasty there. Her nasty behavior caused much trouble. This poison is particularly nasty stuff. Smoking, it's a nasty habit... but I quite enjoy it.

nasty

offensive or even (of persons) malicious in a nasty mood a nasty accident a nasty shock a nasty smell a nasty trick to pull Will he say nasty things at my funeral? — Ezra Pound (= tight) exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent a nasty problem a good man to have on your side in a tight situation (= filthy, foul) disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter as filthy as a pigsty a foul pond a nasty pigsty of a room (= filthy, foul, smutty) characterized by obscenity had a filthy mouth foul language smutty jokes

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Simple sentences

You have a nasty concussion.
That's just nasty.
Tom has a nasty temper.
The spoiled meat had a nasty smell.
His nasty comments fueled the argument.
His brother was nasty to me.
He doesn't look that way, but he's really a nasty piece of work.
The coffee is nasty.
I have a nasty feeling something's gone wrong.
I have a nasty feeling that something awful is going to happen.
She's a nasty witch.
It looks like we're in for some nasty weather.
This fruit smells nasty.
What a nasty man he is!
I got a nasty sting from a wasp.
He is nasty.
I can't get rid of a nasty cold.
Tom gave Mary a nasty look.
Tom is nasty.
I didn't expect such a nasty response to my question.
Tom isn't nasty.

Movie subtitles

Those pits in Yellowstone are just nasty.
Today was a nasty one.
Nasty, filthy, hairy. A local.
A devil pours the nasty sulfur oozing from a horn down a man's throat.
You will have a very nasty neighbor there.
There is a nasty man, Adolphus.
Nasty business, this.
I'm afraid there's going to be a nasty accident.
A very nasty accident.
Well shut my big, nasty mouth.
Besides, I don't want to be mixed up in any nasty business.
Maybe the nasty old murderer did leave that coat, but that isn't your coat.
You've been with us two days, and you haven't done anything but sit around and look nasty.
He's got a nasty crack on the skull.
He, uh, shoots a kind of a nasty look at you once in a while, boy.
It was just like a nasty, little boy.
I was just saying, my love, that you're far too clever for those nasty, nasty bandits.
I'm a nasty, cruel, selfish, bad mama.
He has a very kind soul but as his record shows, there is a very mean streak in him and he can be pretty nasty.
Very nasty.
I played a nasty trick on them.
A very nasty way.
Well, I don't, but this guy's gone out of his way to be nasty.
Why do you guys always try to be sensational and make reputations for yourselves by writing cheap, nasty drivel at the expense of other people?
This mug with all the money has had two or three nasty affairs.
Oh, you nasty man.
I got a nasty little cold.
Got a nasty cough, hasn't he?
It's a nasty old bone, it's hundreds of years old.
Look at the nasty little cur!
The nasty dark one.
You low-down, cowardly, nasty thing, you!

News and current affairs

There have been just two ugly matches so far, full of fouls, nasty attacks, and unnecessary aggression, as well as numerous yellow and red cards: Italy vs. the US, and Portugal vs. the Netherlands.
Much of America is in a nasty mood, and the language of compassion has more or less been abandoned.
But sport can also become a kind of gigantic, distracting screen behind which nasty regimes do outrageous things - the very opposite of the Olympic and World Cup spirit.
Guinea, with a nasty military junta in power, is on the brink of disaster.
Further procrastination on interest-rate normalization by the ECB could well lead to a nasty bout of inflation.
No Islamist armies are about to march into Europe - indeed, most victims of Revolutionary Islamism live in the Middle East, not in Europe - and Ahmadinejad, his nasty rhetoric notwithstanding, does not have a fraction of Hitler's power.
But there have been more recent occurrences of nasty currency wars.
Life under it is becoming nasty, brutish and, for many of my compatriots, short.
Then a solution to this nasty conundrum hit Darwin like a ton of bricks.
Whatever nasty surprises may lurk in the future, the global inflation environment is the tamest since the early 1960s.
Exchange rates have a nasty habit of overshooting their equilibrium values, then knifing back on countries, especially those who have been spending too much based on inflated income valuations.
But things become really nasty when the government opts for foreign-exchange controls.
Cash for scientific answers is not as obviously corrupt as cash for parliamentary questions, but smells as nasty.
The logic seemed clear: suppress the asymptomatic but nasty-looking arrhythmias, and you will reduce sudden death.
Most people in the US know that if you talk back to the police, they will get nasty very fast.
These nasty creatures dig their fangs into the linings of the intestines in order to drink blood and lacerated flesh.
NEWPORT BEACH - More than three years after the global financial crisis, the world still has a nasty plumbing problem.
Anything that lurks in shadows must have nasty intent, potentially dangerous consequences, or both.
If you throw your blanket too wide, you cannot complain about nasty bedfellows.
The question of whether to meet with nasty but powerful people has dogged diplomacy since its inception, and both ends of the question have been argued endlessly - and inconclusively.
But nasty politics is nothing new to the US: its founding era was hardly an idyll of dispassionate deliberation.

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