Crossword clues for nastier
nastier
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nasty \Nas"ty\ (n[.a]s"t[y^]), a. [Compar. Nastier (n[.a]s"t[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Nastiest.] [For older nasky; cf. dial. Sw. naskug, nasket.]
Offensively filthy; very dirty, foul, or defiled; disgusting; nauseous.
Hence, loosely: Offensive; disagreeable; unpropitious; wet; drizzling; as, a nasty rain, day, sky.
Characterized by obscenity; indecent; indelicate; gross; filthy.
Vicious; offensively ill-tempered; insultingly mean; spiteful; as, a nasty disposition.
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Difficult to deal with; troublesome; as, he fell of his bike and got a nasty bruise on his knee. [slang]
Syn: Nasty, Filthy, Foul, Dirty.
Usage: Anything nasty is usually wet or damp as well as filthy or dirty, and disgusts by its stickiness or odor; but filthy and foul imply that a thing is filled or covered with offensive matter, while dirty describes it as defiled or sullied with dirt of any kind; as, filthy clothing, foul vapors, etc.
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparative of: nasty)
WordNet
See nasty
adj. 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 [syn: awful] [ant: nice]
exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent; "a nasty problem"; "a good man to have on your side in a tight situation" [syn: tight]
thoroughly unpleasant; "filthy (or foul or nasty or vile) weather we're having" [syn: filthy, foul, vile]
characterized by obscenity; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes" [syn: filthy, foul, smutty]
disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter; "as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room" [syn: filthy, foul]
Usage examples of "nastier".
She screamed, too, adding to the chorus that had to make this building sound like one of the nastier suburbs of hell.
But the not very kingly King of Hawaii went on, “This Captain Iwabuchi is a lot nastier than General Yamashita ever was.
It had given her a flux of the bowels, and had given her daughter a nastier one.
Richard was small and lithe and surrounded by bodyguards who looked a lot nastier than the ones Rance and Penny had along.
The Tosevites themselves have a nastier imagination than their mechanisms.
The only trouble is, the Reich and the Lizards have nastier things than brickbats to throw.
None of their spacecraft designed to fight in orbit - nastier creatures than Hans-Ulrich Bus - showed up on his screen.
None of their spacecraft designed to fight in orbit— nastier creatures than Hans-Ulrich Bus— showed up on his screen.
He had spent too much time in the company of villains nastier than us.
We ran into something a bit nastier than we'd expected, but Doc Raven showed up in time to prevent Stealth and me from adding our names to the list of deceased aides.
By the way he said it, he couldn't have come up with a nastier curse if he'd tried for a week.
It's worst with people, but with the animals that are close to mankind, it seems to be a little nastier than it might be elsewhere in the wild kingdom.
Snakeboy's serpent-cloud had been one of the nastier spells I'd seen, and it had only slowed Susan down.
The downsized versions which could be crammed into a LAC-sized missile were far less individually capable than the versions capital missiles could carry, but they were nastier than anything any LAC had ever been able to deploy before.