Synonyms for nasty
ˈnæs tinasty

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1. nasty

   Synonyms:
   fool, offensive, odious, disagreeable, indelicate, impure, gross, unclean, obscene

   Antonyms:
   nice, pleasant, sweet, savory, agreeable, pure

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1. 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

   Synonyms:
   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, fearsome

   Antonyms:
   clean, pleasant, nice, good, easy, unobjectionable

2. nasty, tightadjective

   exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent

   "a nasty problem"; "a good man to have on your side in a tight situation"

   Synonyms:
   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, wet

   Antonyms:
   good, unobjectionable, nice, clean, easy, pleasant

3. cruddy, filthy, foul, nasty, smuttyadjective

   characterized by obscenity

   "had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes"

   Synonyms:
   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, repellant

   Antonyms:
   pleasant, unobjectionable, clean, nice, easy, good

4. filthy, 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

   Antonyms:
   unobjectionable, pleasant, clean, easy, nice, good

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1. 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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1. nastyadjective

   Synonyms:
   filthy, foul, unclean, impure, dirty, polluted, denied, nauseous, disgusting, sickening, loathsome, offensive, repulsive, squalid

2. nastyadjective

   Synonyms:
   obscene, smutty, gross, indelicate, lewd, indecent, ribald, loose

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1. nastyadjective

   Synonyms:
   filthy, squalid, foul, polluted, dirty, indecent, indelicate, gross, ribald, lewd, obscene, smutty, shameless, odious, sickening, repulsive, nauseous, disgusting, disagreeable

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1. List of paraphrases for "nasty":

   unpleasant, naughty, disgusting, disagreeable, bad, dirty, ugly, wicked, horrible, filthy, awful

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1. George Bernard Shaw:

   Do you know what a pessimist is A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

2. Jeff Melvoin:

   Check out the Declaration of Independence You think it promises happiness No no no, it talks about the pursuit of happiness. The PURSUIT We've become a nation of wimps We think we're entitled to everything, we want to legislate ourselves into some cozy little cocoon. Well, forget it, Nature Boy. There are no guarantees. Life is nasty, brutish, and short.

3. Newt Gingrich:

   I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.

4. Donald Trump:

   They said some of the things that she said, and it's actually on tape. And I said,' Well, I didn't know she was nasty.' I wasn't referring to she's nasty, i said she was nasty about me. And essentially I didn't know she was nasty about me.

5. Henry Miller:

   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.