Crossword clues for nastiness
nastiness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nastiness \Nas"ti*ness\, n. The quality or state of being nasty; extreme filthness; dirtiness; also, indecency; obscenity.
The nastiness of Plautus and Aristophanes.
--Dryden.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) a lack of cleanliness 2 (context US uncountable English) dirt or filth 3 (context uncountable English) indecency or corruption 4 (context countable English) an unpleasant or disagreeable action, taste or smell
WordNet
n. a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse [syn: filth, filthiness, foulness]
malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty [syn: cattiness, bitchiness, spite, spitefulness]
the quality of being unpleasant; "I flinched at the nastiness of his wound" [ant: niceness]
Usage examples of "nastiness".
That war between Oldorando and Kace had broken out because of the ineffectiveness of King Sayren Stund as much as the nastiness of the Kaci.
Not only the smartly uniformed guards along the hall attested to this, but also the hidden traps, emplacements, and other nastiness that only his trained eye could make out signified rank and importance.
He's finished practicing both nastiness and dottiness for good, however.
My horse picked his way carefully through the muck and refuse, unhappy with the overall stench, disliking the bands of children who ran screaming across his path, disapproving entirely of the nastiness I'd ridden him into.
Embra used the Dwaer to twist the unfinished spells into traps of minor nastiness for Ingrylor anyone elsewho might come poking around the lair, and then called on it to whisk the Four back to Flowfoam.
For, as we have said, God allows the devil more power over that act than over other human acts, because of its natural nastiness, and because by it the first sin was handed down to posterity.
He just had to hang tough and take whatever nastiness Malone was preparing to hand out.
On the other hand, there was that nastiness of the dominator hierarchies of King and Pope and hypermasculine God: perhaps, after all, 'tis not the Paradise sought.
There were tough neighborhoods on this side of the river, the area around the Ripetto docks for one, but for sheer nastiness the streets within the Leonine wall that was part of the Vatican's medieval defenses were Rome's low point.
Apart from the one fundamental nastiness the luckless mouse succeeds in creating around it so many other nastinesses in the form of doubts and questions, adds to the one question so many unsettled questions that there inevitably works up around it a sort of fatal brew, a stinking mess, made up of its doubts, emotions, and of the contempt spat upon it by the direct men of action who stand solemnly about it as judges and arbitrators, laughing at it till their healthy sides ache.
He wished that a couple of those flying nastinesses, the Ice Dragons, would come and try to attack him the way one had young Rohan.
Let us unhesitatingly reject these abominations, these nastinesses of the beggars dressed in rags that they have snatched from corpses, and follow the etymological signification of the word as given above!
Paul had never heard a voice that could imply so much, put such a sneer of contempt into such outwardly dispassionate words, and the cultured undertone of nastiness was too open for most of the newsies who'd dogged Honor's every move.
Echoes of the nastiness that Candy was spreading bounced back to her-the merchandise at Pretenses was inelegant and overpriced, the service lax, rude, and inexperienced.
Echoes of the nastiness that Candy was spreading bounced back to her—the merchandise at Pretenses was inelegant and overpriced, the service lax, rude, and inexperienced.