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Example sentences for "nasty"

Lexicographically close words:
nastier; nastiest; nastiness; nasturtium; nasturtiums; nasua; nata; natae; natale; natatory
  1. Jack had received a nasty cut on the shoulder; but Philip was unwounded, and in the general scrimmage they managed to keep well together.

  2. As Peter had received a nasty blow on the head during the melee, Jack insisted that he should remain behind and rest himself.

  3. You said some nasty sarcastic things, so I punished you.

  4. But I never thought you would be so nasty and mean!

  5. People were possessed with a furor for the nasty waters and flocked by thousands to the neighborhood.

  6. In the course of clearing the grounds, the workmen found a spring, whose water was so particularly nasty that they at once suspected it to possess curative qualities of the greatest value, and so reported it to the proprietor.

  7. And you know how very ready to say nasty things these Highmarket people are.

  8. A nasty place to fall over, and a bad job--a bad job!

  9. Here's a convenient spot," said Stoner, with a nasty laugh.

  10. Both of them must be confoundedly hard hit," he murmured to himself; "I never knew Densham turn nasty before.

  11. In fact I can't say that he seems very cordially disposed towards me, considering that I saved him from rather a nasty accident.

  12. I ought perhaps to tell you that the horses are very fresh and don't go well together: they have a nasty habit of running away down hill.

  13. Then you will take away all these nasty prickles?

  14. For, as they flew away, what should they find but a nasty dead dog?

  15. For the lady called him up, and held out her fingers with something in them, and popped it into his mouth; and, lo and behold, it was a nasty cold hard pebble.

  16. It is only a nasty eft, which nothing eats, not even those vulgar pike in the pond.

  17. And, instead of watchmen and policemen to keep out nasty things at night, there were thousands and thousands of water-snakes, and most wonderful creatures they were.

  18. Come along, children, never mind those nasty eels: we shall breakfast on salmon to-morrow.

  19. But, to make up to them for having to do such nasty work, they were not left black and dirty, as poor chimney-sweeps and dustmen are.

  20. I'm sorry Rosie Brown overheard it; she can be nasty when she likes, and she considers herself some one too, for her father is an alderman.

  21. B; c1] for the face to get a nasty expression on it.

  22. Saragáti ning batáa, kahúgaw, What a nasty child you are.

  23. Pirmi siyang kakitag áway kay kusug mupaligwat ug sulti, She tends to pick quarrels because she tends to make nasty allusions.

  24. These were mixed in a bottle with water, but Eliza threw it away and said it was nasty rubbish, and I hadn't any money to get more things with.

  25. Eliza gave him a powder in what was left of the red-currant jelly Father had for the nasty dinner.

  26. The nasty lady then remarked--'Go at once, or I will send for the police!

  27. The last time, don't you remember, you received that nasty blow with the ball.

  28. Jasmine welcomed the introduction with an unspoken hope that there was nothing nasty to see.

  29. We are, too, apt to think that sins of speech most fiercely beset weak and puny characters: men that have no weapon but a sharp and nasty tongue.

  30. And so doing he had developed the nasty indoor tempers, till it seemed pleasant and satisfactory to him to be spiteful, slanderous and false.

  31. There was nothing nasty at all in speaking to Miss Minchin.

  32. It was rather nasty of you, Lavvy, to tell about her having fun in the garret.

  33. It does seem a nasty turn, but it was not our fault.

  34. I got my smelling tackle all choked up with the stuff the bearings of that gunboat's fan was oiled with--nasty rank stuff like Scotch oil.

  35. I can't help having a nasty temper, and this puts me all of a tingle.

  36. But it's not a nasty bitter, sickly and nauseous and all that, but a bitter that you can get almost to like in time.

  37. Make you nasty if you was set to cook a dinner without any fire, and no meat.

  38. If a finger’s laid on that man in the corner it shall be the beginning of a nasty business.

  39. Be off, ye baggage; be off wi’ your nasty merchandise, d’ye hear?

  40. It was a nasty day, rainy and blowy and cold, and most of the fellows were huddling indoors around the radiators.

  41. Eric had a nasty cut over his right eye that gave him a peculiarly ugly expression, and it was soon evident that Eric's temper was as ugly as his appearance.

  42. The rubber was hard at work over the table and Danny Moore was already busy with surgeon's plaster and medicated gauze and nasty smelling lotion.

  43. A nasty clawing; but these men get over far worse wounds than that.

  44. You, Vincent, as usual; that nasty overbearing temper of yours again.

  45. Any more of your nasty snacks and I chuck it up altogether," said Mr. Chase, heatedly.

  46. Give your orders," said Mr. Gibbs, in a nasty voice.

  47. I say, how horrible if the mule were to step on one of the nasty reptiles now.

  48. The twigs and leaves are covered with those nasty little tortoise-like things, and he says they are sucking all the juices out of the trees.

  49. It almost had a nasty taste when it was made into tea.

  50. Ah, you may grin, but it's a nasty habit, I think, that of rubbing grease turned into what you call soap all over your skin.

  51. If there be sport in hunting down a nasty fox, how much more is there in hunting down a nice, clean nobleman's carriage!

  52. Am I of a age to drink water like a 'oss, you nasty thing!

  53. What do I care about those nasty girls on the Hill?

  54. You always dream nasty things; I expect it's your inside.

  55. It was the grown-up people who were so nasty on the subject of sweethearts; the boys and girls never could understand why.

  56. His dutiful wife wrapped his hand up in soda and called the stove-lid a "nasty old thing!

  57. I knew a lover cured of his passion, by seeing this nasty cascade discharged from the mouth of his mistress.

  58. In this connection, too, the itinerant divine gave the travelling doctor a very nasty fall.

  59. Faith said Mrs. Waddler would be nasty if we didn't take something to eat this time, so I spent the tramp's half dollar for some of those marshmallow cakes with nuts on top.

  60. I guess this will be enough," answered the older girl, critically examining the nasty mess, and stirring it so energetically that a goodly portion of it flew out of the bucket into her lap.


  61. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nasty" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abhorrent; abominable; arrant; atrocious; awful; bad; baleful; base; bawdy; beastly; bitter; black; blameworthy; blue; boorish; brackish; brutal; cloying; coarse; contaminate; contemptible; corrupt; crude; cussed; defile; deplorable; despicable; detestable; dire; dirty; disagreeable; disgusting; distasteful; dreadful; egregious; enormous; erotic; evil; execrable; explosive; fecal; fetid; filthy; flagrant; forbidding; foul; frightful; fulsome; grievous; grisly; gross; grubby; harmful; harsh; hate; hateful; heinous; hideous; high; horrible; horrid; hurtful; ignoble; impure; inconsiderate; indecent; infamous; infect; iniquitous; insensitive; invidious; lamentable; lewd; loathsome; lousy; loutish; lurid; maggoty; malicious; malign; malignant; malodorous; mangy; mawkish; mean; mess; miasmic; monstrous; mucky; muddy; murky; nasty; nauseating; nauseous; nefarious; noisome; notorious; noxious; objectionable; obnoxious; obscene; odious; offensive; ornery; outrageous; overripe; paw; pitiful; poisonous; pollute; pornographic; profane; putrid; rancid; rank; regrettable; repellent; reprehensible; repugnant; repulsive; revolting; ribald; rotten; ruinous; sad; salacious; sarcastic; scabby; scandalous; scathing; scurfy; scurrilous; scurvy; seamy; serious; shabby; shameful; sharp; shocking; shoddy; sickening; slimy; sloppy; sludgy; slushy; smutty; soil; sordid; sour; spoiled; squalid; stinking; stormy; sultry; tactless; taint; tarnish; tart; terrible; thorny; truculent; ugly; unchaste; unclean; unfeminine; ungentlemanly; ungodly; unladylike; unpalatable; unprintable; unrefined; unsavory; vicious; vile; villainous; violent; virulent; vulgar; weevily; wicked; woeful; wormy; worst; worthless; wretched