| ADJECTIVE | all | nasty, awful | offensive or even (of persons) malicious |
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| all | nasty, tight | exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent | |
| all | nasty, cruddy, filthy, foul, smutty | characterized by obscenity | |
| all | nasty, filthy, foul | disgustingly dirty |
| Sounds | nae'stiy | |
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| Rhymes | ability ... zloty: 638 rhymes with tiy... | |
| Meaning | Offensive or even (of persons) malicious. | |
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| Synonym | awful | |
| Attribute of | nastiness | The quality of being unpleasant |
| Narrower | dirty, filthy, lousy | vile |
| grotty | Very unpleasant or offensive | |
| hateful, mean | Characterized by malice | |
| See also | unpleasant | Disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings |
| Opposite | nice | Pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance |
| Spanish | horrible, repugnante | |
| Nouns | nastiness | the quality of being unpleasant |
| nastiness | malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty | |
| Adverbs | nastily | in a nasty ill-tempered manner |
| Meaning | exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent. | |
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| Example | "a nasty problem" | |
| Synonym | tight | |
| Broader | difficult, hard | not easy |
| Meaning | Characterized by obscenity. | |
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| Synonyms | cruddy, filthy, foul, smutty | |
| Broader | dirty | (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency |
| Spanish | grosero, lascivo, libidinoso, luxurioso, obsceno, verde, vicioso | |
| Catalan | groller, lasciu, libidinós, luxuriós, obscè, verd, viciós | |
| Nouns | nastiness | malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty |
| Meaning | disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter. | |
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| Example | "a nasty pigsty of a room" | |
| Synonyms | filthy, foul | |
| Broader | dirty, soiled, unclean | Soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime |
| Spanish | asqueroso, guarro, inmundo, repugnante, sucio | |
| Catalan | asquerós, repugnant | |
| Nouns | nastiness | a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse |
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