Crossword clues for nastiest
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-superlative 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 "nastiest".
Dave's father was one of the nastiest little tyrants that ever dominated a household under the guise of loving-kindness.
Every recon platform, system sensor, and dedicated command loop was routed through Moonbase, which was also the toughest, nastiest fortress ever designed by humans.
The nastiest of them will start pogroms, killing all Entries as soon as they appear in their own lands.
And in a land where only the smartest, the most ruthless, the most totally amoral could reach the top of the order, the oldest of that hierarchy was not only the leader, but also the nastiest bastard the race had yet produced.
He took his fastest, most versatile, and nastiest two thousand and punched through the hole, heading straight for here.
Yes--you must answer for it all because you turned up like this, because I am a blackguard, because I am the nastiest, stupidest, absurdest and most envious of all the worms on earth, who are not a bit better than I am, but, the devil knows why, are never put to confusion.
The downside of efficient IT was that it did a far better job preserving the body than it did preserving the mind-and some kinds of madness, albeit not the nastiest kinds, really were all in the mind.