Nastiness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Nastiness is a noun meaning (uncountable) Lack of cleanliness.
Meaning
(uncountable) Lack of cleanliness.
More Meanings
- (uncountable) Dirt, filth.
- (uncountable) Indecency; corruption; unkindness, meanness, spite, harshness, cruelty.
- (uncountable) Unpleasantness, disagreeableness (to the senses).
- (countable) A nasty action, object, quality, etc. (all senses of nasty).
Example Sentences
They neither comb their Head, nor wash their Face, / But think their virtuous Nastiness a grace.
During the day, the surrounding blocks are no better, full of cheesy bars, tacky shops and brash, neon nastiness.
Among current novelists, Martin Amis lacks intellectual force but is well supplied with nastiness, which occasionally resembles humor.
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.
Word Forms
- nastinesses
Synonyms for nastiness
Depending on context, synonyms include spite, filth, cattiness, spitefulness, bitchiness, foulness.
Antonyms for nastiness
Common opposites include niceness.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include spitefulness, spite, filthiness, cattiness, filth, bitchiness.
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