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NASTY

/ˈnɑːsti/

adjective

DEFINITION

very bad or unpleasant

behaving in an unpleasant or spiteful way

harmful person or thing

disgusting, offensive

bad-tempered, mean

Nasty Sentence Examples

Nasty surprise.

Stop borrowing or we'll turn really nasty.

My only criticism is that the artwork looks a bit nasty.

Nasty habits like biting your nails or picking your nose.

She may be, as i am told, a thoroughly nastypiece of work.

Nasty bug " floating around " the moment they turned the machine on.

Not only did she smell nasty, she died.

Avoid the animal's breath, as it may carry some potentially nastybacteria.

He comes across as a pretty nastyguy with very few redeeming features.

A particularly nastystrain of the virus can make normally healthy people very ill.

WORD ORIGIN

c.1400, "foul, filthy, dirty, unclean," of unknown origin; perhaps [Barnhart] from Old French nastre "miserly, envious, malicious, spiteful," shortened form of villenastre "infamous, bad," from vilein "villain" + -astre, pejorative suffix, from Latin -aster.

Alternative etymology [OED] is from Dutch nestig "dirty," literally "like a bird's nest." Likely reinforced in either case by a Scandinavian source (cf. Swedish dialectal naskug "dirty, nasty"), which also might be the source of the Middle English word. Of weather, from 1630s; of things generally, "unpleasant, offensive," from 1705. Of people, "ill-tempered," from 1825. Noun meaning "something nasty" is from 1935. Related: Nastily; nastiness.