Nastiness

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Lack of cleanliness. uncountable

    "They neither comb their Head, nor wash their Face, / But think their virtuous Nastiness a grace."

  2. 2
    the quality of being highly unpleasant wordnet
  3. 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. 4
    malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty wordnet
  5. 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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  1. 6
    a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse wordnet
  2. 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."

  3. 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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