a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse
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malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty
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the quality of being unpleasant
<noun.attribute> I flinched at the nastiness of his wound
Nastiness \Nas"ti*ness\, n. The quality or state of being nasty; extreme filthness; dirtiness; also, indecency; obscenity.
The nastiness of Plautus and Aristophanes. --Dryden.
Increasingly, this campaign has seemed to catch the ruling junta off balance and it has responded with an escalating barrage of nastiness and vitriol.
Then came the nastiness with Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. last year.
The unnerving Mr. Conway was replaced by Danny DeVito, who has patented a kind of adorable nastiness.
Using the fashion editor as copy taster for a week might help. But however much the public may be on Lewis's side in this, viewers are surely not surprised when news programmes reflect much of the nastiness of the world.
"He doesn't have any meanness in him, any nastiness, and in his line of work that can be a liability," says Maj. Gen.
I believe that each one of us should concentrate hard so as to bring to mind some small-scale horror, some bit of nastiness - and then strive to exterminate it, to squash and quash it.
I know I could have been Miss America." The contestants said that they saw no hint of nastiness or unfair competition among the women.