How To Use Nastiness In A Sentence
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His persona there is what I suppose you would call roguish, impish, twinkling or some similarly emetic term and he simply cannot afford to get Private Eye involved in anything remotely controversial or interesting because of the danger that his mainstream audience would drop him as fast as Gerald Ratner's customers dropped him if they found out that he was mixed in in any real world nastiness like proper investigative journalism.
Iain Dale's Diary
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Neither man was on trial for the nastiness of his opinions, but on the specific charges of inciting racial hatred.
Times, Sunday Times
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Gleeful nastiness has pervaded and polluted both his plays and movies, and, sad to say, made him a cult figure.
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The outrage it provoked was based on the seeming crudeness of the content and the sexist nastiness of the boy protagonists.
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Labeling her Obama's "baby mama" and calling her jubilant fist jab a "terrorist fist jab," is only the beginning of the nastiness.
Bonnie Fuller: Michelle Obama's War Against the W(B)itchhunters
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The outrage it provoked was based on the seeming crudeness of the content and the sexist nastiness of the boy protagonists.
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I have no problem with comedians who use politics as the backbone of comedy; the problem comes when nastiness supplants humor.
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It really boosts my self esteem to know that I am so much better than the nastiness you call 'feisty'!
Msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
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Maybe the nastiness is caused by the behaviour and example of the chosen few?
Times, Sunday Times
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But to automatically cry "oh, get a sense of humor" when someone points out disrespect, snark, or nastiness is disingenuous and fundamentally unkind.
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What leaves the reader riveted is not Lida's obsession with nastiness - disturbing though the murder, rape and homelessness are - but his emotional proximity ...
Comments On Reviews Of Travel Advisory
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But no mention of the nastiness, sheer malevolence and bullying of the Republican Party and its cheerleaders - like those who refer to Barack Hussein Obama, but not John Sydney McCain - because they want to suggest the Democrat's "alienness" without being quite that explicit ...
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Sheer pig-headed ignorance, nastiness, mean-spiritedness and rudeness in my opinion.
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They are particularly impressive in their roles as the two younger girls - innocents who quickly come to grips with the nastiness of their new reality.
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I flinched at the nastiness of his wound
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Neither man was on trial for the nastiness of his opinions, but on the specific charges of inciting racial hatred.
Times, Sunday Times
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Chekhov's short story ‘Peasants' harrowingly captures the nastiness, brutishness and shortness of life in a village of the time.
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For then we shall see things as they are, the evil circumstances and the crooked intentions, the adherent unhandsomeness and the direct crimes; for all things are laid up safely, and tho we draw a curtain of cobweb over them, and a few fig-leaves before our shame, yet God shall draw away the curtain, and forgetfulness shall be no more, because, with a taper in the hand of God, all the corners of our nastiness shall be discovered.
The World's Great Sermons, Volume 02 Hooker to South
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To a large degree such a separation from reality through filtered information occurred when I was a child by the censorship and expurgation of nastiness from school reading books.
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In any case, in its bilious doctrinal carping, the editorial was quite exemplary, a sinister, jargon-ridden spasm of Stalinesque nastiness.
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I did not eat tongue, but my mother, my grandmother and my aunts did, and seeing it sitting there on the platter from the Pickle Barrel, contaminating the lovely pastrami and corned beef beside it with its nastiness was enough to make me eat tuna.
Archive 2009-08-01
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PS the LA Looks-gelled up crimpy mermaid nastiness thing was so late '90s.
Dlisted - Be Very Afraid
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And the immersive nastiness of their aesthetic — decayed bathrooms, foul workshops, seeping industrial spaces, blades blotched with rust — distilled the slasher-flick elixir: atmosphere.
Don’t Fear the Reaper
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But in the last series, it was enveloped in a miasma of nastiness.
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I have detected no nastiness or bitterness on the doorstep during my canvassing all over Britain.
The Sun
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But in the last series, it was enveloped in a miasma of nastiness.
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Maybe the nastiness is caused by the behaviour and example of the chosen few?
Times, Sunday Times
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The endless ultra-violence trembles between cartoony excess and outright nastiness.
The Sun
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The casual cruelty of some of the dialogue - that mild, two-faced nastiness that one reserves solely for the people closest to us - is made all the more hilarious by our complicit and silent role as an invisible member of the family.
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If they treat Richardson this way, in public, what kind of browbeating, threats and general nastiness are they using more quietly with the uncommitted supers?
Clinton Camp Source: Richardson Said Obama Can't Win
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Neither man was on trial for the nastiness of his opinions, but on the specific charges of inciting racial hatred.
Times, Sunday Times
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I am one of those who despises the nastiness no matter where it comes from.
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The nastiness of these exchanges can be partially explained by the irascibility of some of the personalities involved, but it also reflected fundamental disagreements about methods and goals.
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That emotion, when it comes, releases us from the amorality and nastiness of our situation as voyeurs.
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Myths and rituals get worked over by time and human creativity until the originals show through only in glimmers; fairy tales gain and lose characters, nastiness, and motif depending on the era in which we live.
Archive 2007-10-01
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Also, it was nevertheless her Sunday best and, as such, had a certain innate dignity in spite of its nastiness.
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It is glib and empty rationalising, which taken literally would imply that nastiness is a prerequisite for success.
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So lets have less negativity and nastiness in films and video.
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Because people associate Hobbes with unpleasantness, nastiness, and life-and-death contests, they start to use the phrase to refer to any choice that has some of those characteristics.
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A supremely gifted player with a magical touch, he combined charm and nastiness in almost equal measure.
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This sort of internecine nastiness is all too common in law firms, investment partnerships, and other businesses that depend on their owners' harmony.
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One of the direct benefits they get is political advantage when the nastiness of political ads turns off more reasonable people and polarizes the ideologues to cling to their base.
Joe Brewer: The Psychology of Manipulation in Political Ads
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We live in a sad era that mistakes mean-spirited arrogance for intellectual daring, juvenile nastiness for independence of mind, the dung beetle for the artist.
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There was no corruption, just nastiness and personal enmity.
Times, Sunday Times
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An unspecified bit of nastiness which can be cast on someone who steals something.
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The case is illustrative both of the sheer nastiness of this fraud and the fact that fraudsters frequently have links to other crime.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rush is always an entertaining turn and the role promises to license a hyperactive nastiness.
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I have been a Crikey subscriber twice since you began but each time I have unsubscribed because I did not like the gossip and general nastiness in most of your material.
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The daily grind of nastiness and spite, of uncaring and uninterest, the dull fog of low-grade terror is close to inexpressible.
National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week: The four big lies.
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Such winkingly ostentatious nastiness and Mr. Pollock's habit of telegraphing violence rather than lingering over it make this violent book surprisingly easy to read and digest.
The Comic-Grotesque Goes North
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But I will not tolerate a bunch of snipy nastiness — I have not had nearly enough sleep for it, and my exhaustion is like to make me snappish any moment now.
Firedoglake » Time to Take Off the Glasses
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This 1897 story harrowingly captures the nastiness, brutishness, and shortness of life in a village of the time.
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But maybe the nastiness and "cankle" talk represents its own kind of progress
Salon
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Neither man was on trial for the nastiness of his opinions, but on the specific charges of inciting racial hatred.
Times, Sunday Times
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Neither man was on trial for the nastiness of his opinions, but on the specific charges of inciting racial hatred.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Supreme Court filings included only a hint of the nastiness and sleaze from the family fight.
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The team loves his toughness and nastiness.
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Wholesome people would not argue about the taste of such nastinesses: they would spit them out; but we are tainted with flagellomania from our childhood.
Treatise on Parents and Children
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Scandals in high life, starvation in low life; foul floods of nastiness in Law Courts; muddy tricklings of misery in lawless alleys; crimes so terrible and revolting; pains so pitiless and cureless; follies so selfish and wanton, that he let the journal drop, and fell back in his chair, appalled.
Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, Jan. 2, 1892
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In more recent times, his nastiness has become more unpredictable.
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Enough to say that the combination of puerility and nastiness makes your flesh creep.
Times, Sunday Times
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Regrettably, much of it is unrepeatable in the pages of this newspaper due to the sheer nastiness but, thankfully, there was also a degree of humour attached to one or two outpourings.
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This was a particularly cowardly attack, it's the nastiness of the injuries really.
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For all their nastiness, the characters have an unashamed flamboyance that is hard to resist.
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I fingered the ` fast forward ' button, wanting to zip myself through this patch of time, get out the other side of the nastiness.
A DARKENING STAIN