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UK
/nˈɑːstɪli/
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ADVERB
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in a nasty ill-tempered manner
`Don't expect me to help you,' he added nastily
How To Use nastily In A Sentence
- She is a nastily neurotic newly unemployed she-devil obsessed with weight, beauty, and things unnamed.
- ‘I agree,’ The Duke said nastily, ‘it seems they will just let any old riff-raff into places these days.’
- There were dozens of knives; ellipsoidal, stiletto, triangular, with or without blood gutters grooved nastily in their flanks, gem-encrusted little pig-stickers for argumentative ladies, trick knives concealed in eyeglass cases or boot soles ... all the deadly variety of which the honer was capable. A Corridor in the Asylum
- Not surprisingly, on the JIRA, where a lot of the politics of Second Life is playing out now, a resident named Boy Lane, who is one of the loudmouths on the Concierge List often heckling me nastily, mounts a proposal demanding that the term "ladyboy" be removed from the list of "adult" words that have to be filtered out of the search list under the new dispensation. Second Thoughts
- ‘I agree,’ The Duke said nastily, ‘it seems they will just let any old riff-raff into places these days.’
- Like so many of the movies Carell has headlined over the past five years, "Dinner for Schmucks" -- despite a title Yiddish speakers understandably find nastily off-color -- will most likely put tushies in seats. Upwardly mobile: Steve Carell rises above the material in 'Dinner for Schmucks'
- He had hawked up as much phlegm and mucus as he could muster into that spit and watched it slide nastily down Cassius' face in streaks of yellow and white.
- 'I hate you,' she said nastily.
- With a thin hilt and a curved bend, three sharp prongs spiked out nastily and gleamed in the room's bright light.
- `Don't expect me to help you,' he added nastily