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Nastiness
Definitions
- 1 Lack of cleanliness. uncountable
"They neither comb their Head, nor wash their Face, / But think their virtuous Nastiness a grace."
- 2 the quality of being highly unpleasant wordnet
- 3 Dirt, filth. uncountable
"[T]he helliſh Noiſe, the Roaring, Svvearing, and Clamour, the Stench and Naſtineſs, and all the dreadful croud of Afflicting things that I ſavv there; joyn'd together to make the Place ſeem an Emblem of Hell itſelf, and a kind of an Entrance into it."
- 4 malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty wordnet
- 5 Indecency; corruption; unkindness, meanness, spite, harshness, cruelty. uncountable
"Among current novelists, Martin Amis lacks intellectual force but is well supplied with nastiness, which occasionally resembles humor."
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- 6 a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse wordnet
- 7 Unpleasantness, disagreeableness (to the senses). uncountable
"Some medical beast had revived Tar-water in those days as a fine medicine, and Mrs. Joe always kept a supply of it in the cupboard; having a belief in its virtues correspondent to its nastiness."
- 8 A nasty action, object, quality, etc. (all senses of nasty). countable
"If we, who are educated, habitually submit to have copper in our preserves, red-lead in our cayenne, alum in our bread, pigments in our tea, and ineffable nastinesses in our fish-sauce, what can we expect of the poor?"
Etymology
From nasty + -ness.
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