Not just mean

Usage examples of nasty.

Where, a second earlier, there had been a squad of InfiniDim Enterprises executives with a rocket launcher standing on an elegant terraced plaza paved with large slabs of lustrous stone cut from the ancient alabastrum quarries of Zentalquabula there was now, instead, a bit of a pit with nasty bits in it.

I have to say, that what he had in mind was so appallingly nasty that even I was impressed.

The High King dispatched his new navy to beat off the Andradhians, and commanded his Royal Alchymist to bespeak the hedge-wizards attending rebellious Prince Somarus, warning of nasty consequences if his fighters pressed their attack on Tarn.

It was one of the new ones with the big, homely turret that housed a bigger, nastier cannon.

No nasty Ascent here: let the id be our guide to paradise, and let biocentric immersion lead the way to the glorious spirit for all.

Dad said that Bish Ware had called in, with nothing to report but a vague suspicion that something nasty was cooking.

I went down in a nasty piece of biz, anyone looking too close might be able to tie her with me.

Mac took a swig of bleer, lifted his eyepatch, and rubbed a nasty scar where an eye had been.

An ant larger than the rest advanced to Blinky and eyed him curiously, still waving a leg in a dangerous manner, and a nasty fighting look about his whole body.

For a second, Clift looked wounded, but then Saul came back, with his nasty grin.

FAST LEAK A rather nasty leak from the primary coolant system of a nuclear reactor.

This is a nasty problem that cosmologists favoring this age for the universe have yet to solve.

Merrick exposed an opposition agent actually installed in the cypher room of the British Embassy it was going to make a nasty bang at a time when the East-West delegates were sending each other roses.

The region was putrid with the carcasses of decaying fish, and of other less describable things which I saw protruding from the nasty mud of the unending plain.

Gribben Head, showing the way into Fowey, and then the Dodman, just past Mevagissey, and some nasty overfalls, the Bellows, for any ship that kept in too close.