nasty

"And it was pretty vicious, it was pretty nasty, it was absolutely directed in a very personal way at me."

When it comes to business, the government will in part want to be judged on what it does not do in this Budget: no more nasty surprises, no blanket tax rises.

“Wait, are you encouraging him to jump into that nasty water?”

Another smelled like a pile of wet rope encrusted with seaweed and left to rot in the sun, and a nasty, fishy aroma it was.

Penelope tried to kick a warning under the table, but her foot hit the admiral’s cane instead and gave a nasty stub to her toe.