nastiness
Example Sentences
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That's not to say Tigers haven't lost that nastiness that has defined them.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
With this year’s Academy Awards just weeks away, we take a look at notable controversies of the past, some of which perhaps deserve their own statuettes for spite and nastiness: putting the tin in Tinseltown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2025
Even when Walz delivered his obligatory zingers about Trump and Vance, he did it with humor and without nastiness.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2024
Coulam comes across as part Logan Roy, part Joe Exotic — cruel, charismatic, driven and able to inspire fealty even as he dispenses bitter nastiness.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2024
And there wasn’t nastiness, and there wasn’t any filth, and there wasn’t any odor, and there wasn’t any groaning—just the light white laughter of little girls and me.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
