nastier

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nasty (nas′tē)

adjective nastier -·tier, nastiest -·ti·est

  1. very dirty, filthy
  2. offensive in taste or smell; nauseating
  3. morally offensive; indecent
  4. very unpleasant; objectionable nasty weather
  5. mean; malicious; ill-humored a nasty temper
  6. very harmful or troublesome a nasty bruise

Etymology: ME < ? or akin to Du nestig, dirty

noun pl. nasties -·ties

an offensive, objectionable, or very unpleasant person or thing

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I can't see that she could have found anything nastier to say if she'd thought it out with both hands fora fortnight.

-Sayers, Dorothy L(eigh)

'I call it a criminal thing in any one's great-great- grandfather to rear up a preposterous troop of sons and plant them all out in his own country', Lady Knox said to me with apparent irrelevance.'I detest collaterals. Blood may be thicker than water, but it is also a great deal nastier.'

-Martin Ross

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