How to Use nasty in a Sentence
nasty
adjective- That nasty old man yelled at me just for stepping on his lawn!
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The Sandero proves that cheap doesn't have to mean nasty.
—Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 26 May 2023
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The forecast is for the weather to turn nasty on the weekend.
—Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 7 Apr. 2023
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The last thing the franchise and Lillard should want is a nasty split.
—Afentres, oregonlive, 6 July 2023
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He was dragged a few feet and got a nasty case of carpet burn.
—Freda Kreier, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
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Now factor in that nasty 19.5% surge in the cost-of-living.
—Jonathan Lansner, Orange County Register, 17 June 2024
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In the first half, the 34-year-old striker took a nasty fall after a hard challenge in the box.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2023
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The whole, nasty cocktail, destructive of soul, mind, and body.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 24 Mar. 2023
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But a few rules of thumb can stave off some nasty surprises.
—Joe Rennison, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023
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Head here to find out how Jobe learned to harness his nasty slider.
—Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 31 July 2023
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Tiffany Stratton took a nasty bump to the outside where the women barely caught her.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
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An ideal ‘The Boys’ finds a way to embody, even when things get truly nasty.
—Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 25 July 2024
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And the police commissioner was very nasty about it to her.
—NBC News, 17 Sep. 2023
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When my plate arrived, my friend made a face as though it was smeared with something nasty.
—Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
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For a nasty cut, Lopez is in good spirits, now laughing and winking with the nurses.
—Toby Muse, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2024
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Carpet pythons are not venomous but do possess a nasty bite thanks to dozens of teeth.
—Warren Kulo | Wkulo@al.com, al, 30 Aug. 2023
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The sketch caused a firestorm of internet memes and a deluge of nasty emails from Patriots fans.
—Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
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The liquid in which the stem cells are frozen — once in the bloodstream, circulated through the lungs, and breathed out — creates a nasty taste.
—Brittany Trang, STAT, 13 Dec. 2023
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For most, the illness consisted of a nasty flu-like illness with an itchy full-body rash.
—Helen Branswell, STAT, 16 Nov. 2023
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Then the embargo lifted and some of the reviews were pretty nasty.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 16 June 2023
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The Patriots quarterback forced the first challenger to the ground with a nasty jump cut that left the linebacker flailing.
—Varun Shankar, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2023
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However, all that was a nasty detour from the issue at hand.
—Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2024
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Reading reviews from 1991, I was struck but not surprised by how few of them, even the nasty ones, describe the film as goofy or campy.
—Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2024
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But remember, David had a slingshot and a rock, and Goliath had a pretty nasty fall.
—Seth Yudof, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2023
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The talent hasn’t gone anywhere, but the monoculture—his theme, his muse, and his one true medium—played a nasty trick on us all.
—Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
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That nasty bit of fun was spoiled when the maid of honor could be the couple’s daughter or the best man her previous husband.
—Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
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That nasty bit of fun was spoiled when the maid of honor could be the couple’s daughter, or the best man her previous husband.
—Miss Manners | Judith Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 11 July 2023
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My security comes in there like, 'Get off this nasty floor.
—Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 30 May 2024
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In that time, Kidd has seen the election environment turn nasty.
—Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2024
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Not just the increasingly nasty mud-slinging between politicians, but the head-swiveling plot twists that keep coming our way.
—Whizy Kim, Vox, 23 July 2024
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