Thesaurus / nasty
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You have to be infallible, and if you’re not, people will have a lot of nasty things to say.
TAN FRANCE GOES DEEP ON RACISM AND WHEN HE ALMOST QUIT ‘QUEER EYE’EUGENE ROBINSONSEPTEMBER 3, 2020OZYSo far no one has been hurt, but chlorine fumes can be nasty so locals are advised to stay inside their homes.
HURRICANE LAURA IS THE STRONGEST STORM TO HIT LOUISIANA IN MORE THAN A CENTURYSARA CHODOSHAUGUST 28, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCEIt’s also grown nastier as both Hagerty and Sethi try to one-up each other in proving their conservative bona fides.
WHAT TO WATCH FOR IN TENNESSEE’S PRIMARYGEOFFREY SKELLEY (GEOFFREY.SKELLEY@ABC.COM)AUGUST 6, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHTThough it sounds a bit nasty, winds can blow fungi and mold spores like a thick cloud.
EXPLAINER: RAINBOWS, FOGBOWS AND THEIR EERIE COUSINSMATTHEW CAPPUCCIMAY 1, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTSWhether that’s the intent of the medication doesn’t mean it won’t be a nasty side effect.
THE ZERO-MINUTE WORKOUT (EP. 383 REBROADCAST)STEPHEN J. DUBNERJANUARY 2, 2020FREAKONOMICSBut the nasty part of the whole thing was, that Haggard had won eleven thousand pounds from a weak-headed boy.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSBut if people will insist on patting a strange poet, they mustn't be surprised if they get a nasty bite!
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOLUME 107, NOVEMBER 3, 1894VARIOUSThe nasty scandal at the Pandemonium had been particularly irritating to Haggard personally.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSYou pouted and sulked, and had a great fight with nurse, for bringing a nasty boy into the house.
THE WORLD BEFORE THEMSUSANNA MOODIEI'm a nasty cross old thing before lunch, Mr. Wentworth, so I don't come down till afterwards nowadays.
FIRST PLAYSA. A. MILNEWORDS RELATED TO NASTY
- angry
- bellicose
- black
- cantankerous
- crabbed
- crabby
- dark
- disagreeable
- dour
- evil
- fell
- forbidding
- formidable
- gloomy
- glum
- grave
- grievous
- major
- malevolent
- menacing
- morose
- nasty
- obnoxious
- ominous
- pugnacious
- quarrelsome
- rough
- saturnine
- scowling
- serious
- sinister
- spiteful
- sullen
- surly
- treacherous
- truculent
- vicious
- violent
- wicked
- admixed
- adulterated
- alloyed
- carnal
- coarse
- common
- contaminated
- corrupt
- debased
- defiled
- desecrated
- diluted
- dirty
- doctored
- filthy
- foul
- gross
- grubby
- immodest
- immoral
- indecent
- infected
- lewd
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- not pure
- obscene
- polluted
- profaned
- smutty
- squalid
- sullied
- tainted
- unclean
- uncleanly
- unrefined
- unwholesome
- vile
- vitiated
- weighted
- wicked
- bedraggled
- besmirched
- black
- blurred
- common
- contaminated
- corrupt
- decayed
- defiled
- desecrated
- dusty
- evil
- feculent
- fetid
- filthy
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- grimy
- impure
- messy
- muddy
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- polluted
- profaned
- putrescent
- putrid
- rancid
- rank
- rotten
- sloppy
- slovenly
- smeared
- smudged
- soiled
- sooty
- sordid
- spotted
- squalid
- stable
- stained
- stale
- stinking
- sullied
- tainted
- tarnished
- unhealthful
- vile
- bedraggled
- begrimed
- black
- contaminated
- cruddy
- crummy
- defiled
- disarrayed
- dishabille
- disheveled
- dreggy
- dungy
- dusty
- filthy
- foul
- fouled
- greasy
- grimy
- grubby
- grungy
- icky
- lousy
- messy
- mucky
- muddy
- murky
- nasty
- polluted
- raunchy
- scummy
- scuzzy
- slatternly
- slimy
- sloppy
- slovenly
- smudged
- smutty
- soiled
- sooty
- spattered
- spotted
- squalid
- stained
- straggly
- sullied
- unclean
- undusted
- unhygienic
- unkempt
- unlaundered
- unsanitary
- unsightly
- unswept
- untidy
- unwashed
- yucky
- aloof
- antipathetic
- apathetic
- aversive
- callous
- cold
- cold-blooded
- cool
- cruel
- disinterested
- frigid
- halfhearted
- hard
- harsh
- heartless
- icy
- indifferent
- insensitive
- lukewarm
- mean
- nasty
- obdurate
- repellent
- repugnant
- stony
- tough
- uncaring
- uncharitable
- unconcerned
- uncongenial
- unemotional
- unfeeling
- unkind
- unmoved
- unpitying
- unpleasant
- unresponsive
- unstirred
- untouched
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