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.
SYNONYMS
unpleasant, disagreeable, disgusting, distasteful, awful, dreadful, horrible, terrible, vile, foul, abominable, frightful, loathsome, revolting, repulsive, odious, sickening, nauseating, nauseous, repellent, repugnant, horrendous, hideous, appalling, atrocious, offensive, objectionable, obnoxious, unpalatable, unsavoury, unappetizing, off-putting, uninviting, dirty, filthy, squalid
ANTONYMS
great, magnificent, pleasing, wonderful