Definitions for Nastiness
nas·ti·ness

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. filth, filthiness, foulness, nastinessnoun

   a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse

2. cattiness, bitchiness, spite, spitefulness, nastinessnoun

   malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty

3. nastinessnoun

   the quality of being unpleasant

   "I flinched at the nastiness of his wound"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. nastinessnoun

   a lack of cleanliness

2. nastinessnoun

   indecency or corruption

3. nastinessnoun

   an unpleasant or disagreeable action, taste or smell

4. nastinessnoun

   Lack of cleanliness.

   They neither comb their Head, nor wash their Face,

5. nastinessnoun

   Dirt, filth.

   the hellish Noise, the Roaring, Swearing, and Clamour, the Stench and Nastiness and all the dreadful Crowd of afflicting Things that I saw there, joined together to make the Place seem an Emblem of Hell itself, and a Kind of entrance into it.

6. nastinessnoun

   Indecency; corruption; unkindness, meanness, spite, harshness, cruelty.

   Among current novelists, Martin Amis lacks intellectual force but is well supplied with nastiness, which occasionally resembles humor.

7. nastinessnoun

   Unpleasantness, disagreeableness.

   Some medical beast had revived Tar-water in those days as a fine medicine, and Mrs. Joe always kept a supply of it in the cupboard; having a belief in its virtues correspondent to its nastiness.

8. nastinessnoun

   A nasty action, object, quality, etc..

   If we, who are educated, habitually submit to have copper in our preserves, red-lead in our cayenne, alum in our bread, pigments in our tea, and ineffable nastinesses in our fish-sauce, what can we expect of the poor?

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Nastinessnoun

   Etymology: from nasty.

   1. Dirt; filth.

   This caused the seditious to remain within their station, which by reason of the nastiness of the beastly multitude, might more fitly be termed a kennel than a camp. John Hayward.

   Haughty and huge, as high Dutch bride,
   Such nastiness and so much pride
   Are oddly join’d by fate, Jonathan Swift.

   2. Obscenity; grossness of ideas.

   Their nastiness, their dull obscene talk and ribauldry, cannot but be very nauseous and offensive to any who does not baulk his own reason, out of love to their vice. South.

   A divine might have employed his pains to better purpose, than in the nastiness of Plautus and Aristophanes. Dry.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Nastinessnoun

   the quality or state of being nasty; extreme filthness; dirtiness; also, indecency; obscenity

Matched Categories

1. • Malevolence
   • Unsanitariness

Anagrams for Nastiness »

1. antsiness

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Nastiness in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Nastiness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Nastiness in a Sentence

1. Chuck Schumer:

   I understand those who are outraged at the hypocrisy of this President when he complains about bullying, harassment and nastiness when it's used against him or his allies and he uses it as a regular tool every day, but the President's tactics and behavior should never be emulated. It should be repudiated by organized, well-informed and passionate advocacy.

2. President Trump:

   We see this horrible, horrible, radical group of Democrats. You see what’s happening right now, and they’re determined to take back power by any means necessary. You see the meanness, the nastiness. They don’t care who they hurt, who they have to run over to get power.

3. Jordan Fuchs:

   I don’t think any of us anticipated this level of nastiness.

4. Jake Tapper:

   We're in an era right now of lies and indecency, of tribalism and nastiness, and in this era, we lost someone who tried -- tried -- to embody the opposite of those vicious impulses, his loss leaves a chasm in the public square.

5. Oprah Winfrey:

   In that political structure - all the non-truths, the bullshit, the crap, the nastiness, the backhanded backroom stuff that goes on - I feel like I could not exist, i would not be able to do it. It's not a clean business. It would kill me.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Nastiness
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Nastiness
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Nastiness
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Nastiness