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Synonyms for nasty
ˈnæs tinasty
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nasty, awfuladjective
offensive or even (of persons) malicious
"in a nasty mood"; "a nasty accident"; "a nasty shock"; "a nasty smell"; "a nasty trick to pull"; "Will he say nasty things at my funeral?"- Ezra Pound
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frightful, dread(a), cruddy, smutty, tight, terrible, amazing, horrific, filthy, awed, fearful, abominable, unspeakable, horrendous, awful, foul, atrocious, tremendous, dreaded, awe-inspiring, awing, dreadful, direful, awesome, frightening, dire, painful, fearsomenasty, tightadjective
exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent
"a nasty problem"; "a good man to have on your side in a tight situation"
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filthy, close, pissed, blind drunk, besotted, awful, slopped, rigorous, mingy, blotto, squiffy, foul, pixilated, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, tight, soused, compressed, cruddy, sozzled, taut, plastered, miserly, smutty, stiff, stringent, pie-eyed, sloshed, smashed, mean, soaked, loaded, wetcruddy, filthy, foul, nasty, smuttyadjective
characterized by obscenity
"had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes"
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awful, filthy, noisome, fetid, revolting, marked-up, foul, lousy, repellent, dirty, distasteful, cruddy, ill-scented, foetid, black, disgustful, stinking, disgusting, afoul(ip), smelly, cheating(a), tight, foul-smelling, loathsome, wicked, yucky, unsportsmanlike, skanky, unsporting, funky, smutty, repelling, loathly, fouled, repellantfilthy, foul, nastyadjective
disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter
"as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room"
Synonyms:
awful, filthy, noisome, fetid, revolting, marked-up, foul, lousy, repellent, dirty, distasteful, cruddy, ill-scented, foetid, disgustful, stinking, disgusting, afoul(ip), smelly, cheating(a), tight, foul-smelling, loathsome, wicked, yucky, unsportsmanlike, skanky, unsporting, funky, smutty, repelling, loathly, fouled, repellant
Editors Contribution
hellified
the accident was hellified. the outfit that girl was wearing was hellified. in urban lifestyle, it could mean it was good or bad, ( out of this world, sharp or offer). extreme.
Submitted by EJPraise on January 29, 2022
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List of paraphrases for "nasty":
unpleasant, naughty, disgusting, disagreeable, bad, dirty, ugly, wicked, horrible, filthy, awful
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How to use nasty in a sentence?
People often miss that memo and find out about the consequences in a nasty way.
He wrote a lot of nasty letters to me encouraging me to kill Jason Hill. He said : ‘ Michael Dohm should just commit suicide, ’.
Ted’s not a person that’s liked. He’s a nasty guy.
Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
It’s a devastating nasty story, if it’s true, I don’t believe there ’d be a place for Judge Moore in Alabama Senate.
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- مقرفArabic
- menyspreable, brutCatalan, Valencian
- odporný, protivný, ohavný, sprostýCzech
- scheußlich, boshaft, ekelhaftGerman
- malagrablaEsperanto
- sucio, menospreciable, asquerosoSpanish
- méchantFrench
- cattivaItalian
- 不快なJapanese
- phauliusLatin
- desagradávelPortuguese
- neplăcutRomanian
- противныйRussian
- น่ารังเกียจThai
- 討厭Chinese
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