How To Use Nasty In A Sentence

A nasty flu bug's going round at the moment.
I can see banning books that illustrate these nasty looking teste bags. They Had Me At ‘Scrotum’ | Her Bad Mother
Suddenly, seeking high office, Liddy Dole was described as over-ambitious, chilly and nasty under the "syrupy" Southern accent. Caryl Rivers: Bad, Mad Michelle
Streptococcus mutans (S. mutans) has the ability to survive in a highly acidic environment, which is what makes it such a nasty tooth-decayer: remember, it’s the acid bacteria produce as they consume carbohydrates that eats away at tooth enamel. Paging all you "Face on Mars" believers...
Christie's had an auction offering a number of Asian collectibles, including an important bronze group of Shiva and Parvati from the Chola dynasty.

In the Qing Dynasty, the officials's penal system includes two parts: disciplinary sanction and penal punishment.
These intagli would be interesting relics for collectors of such flotsam and jetsam of a ruined dynasty. Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles
This text discusses this system to expect to be in the implement circumstance of Sichuan by Manchu Dynasty. article is divided into three parts.
Since the ancient and modern, along the southeast coast of South Australia is the trade must pass through the park and a transit point, as early as the Ming Dynasty have been on the "maritime trade".
Doreen has been Haworth's lollipop lady for 11 years and she is steadily building up a family dynasty in the job.
Pay a visit to the camp infirmary, get your clothes deloused, or just park yourself in the latrine and fight that nasty case of amoebic dysentery you picked up along the way - it's up to you.
Since the birth of her baby brother she had turned really nasty.
She got a nasty knock on the head when she fell.
His thought, establish from Qin Dynasty and Han Dynasty till Manchu Dynasty last years of the period China feudalistic society of the Rite cure mode of thought foundation.
Lili had a nasty chest infection.
The furniture looked cheap and nasty .
A village postwoman has been branded a ‘nasty busy body’ for deliberately withholding mail from a resident who was an ‘outsider’.
A pig-farmer in Lethbridge has invented a pill, derived from pigfeed, that is fantastically effective in fighting clinical depression without nasty side-effects. Boing Boing: December 16, 2001 - December 22, 2001 Archives
He admits that he ‘may be overzealous at times,’ maybe even nasty or rude.
I can smell something nasty in the bottom of the fridge.
The wetness turned to rain, then to sleet, and then to a nasty, slushy snow, blowing into my face no matter which direction I took.
It makes no sense to keep him on your roster in a redraft league, while keeping him on your roster may be the right decision in a keeper or dynasty league. Scott Swanay: Fantasy Football - Week 4 Preview
They are the tip of an extremely nasty iceberg. Times, Sunday Times
It sounded nasty, but I didn't know if it was a spell or a swear word.
We reserve the right to edit all letters so that all the nasty, unintelligible bits get taken out.
They included an Egyptian scarab whose hieroglyphics told how Amen Hotep III of the 18th dynasty shot 102 fierce lions with his own bow.
Brown will be back to his spiteful, nasty, moody, blackheart self BEFORE the end of the month. Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
But soon those lionfish began to breed a dynasty. Smithsonian
Look how they have treated President Obama and his wife with nasty racist jokes and nasty hatful comments for the right wing white nuts. Senate apologizes for slavery
In connection with an item of Ru ware of the Northern Song dynasty, for instance, which many connoisseurs regard as one of the absolute pinnacles of Chinese ceramic art, the author of the pertinent catalogue entry states that certain qualities of shape and decoration “make it incredibly rare even within this exceptional group.” Archive 2009-08-01
The man who helped to create a president and a political dynasty died in April last year after a lifetime of achievement.
These stocks looked cheap and nasty to me.
You know they're going to say something filthy or nasty. Times, Sunday Times
He copped a nasty whack on the head.
In other words, I have a horrid feeling that that nasty thing might come back.
Or was the examination performed on an uncomplaining conscious patient, who felt that they did not have the right to question why this nasty thing had to be done again and again?
The paper discredited the politician with its nasty commentary
I believe what you are calling a smirk is where his teleprompter is telling him to "SMILE" -- that's so we, and he, know that he told us a joke, and also to dispel that nasty rumor going around about his bad temper. McCain Jokes About Obama's Overseas Trip And Press Coverage
You're a nasty little brute!
'Nay, but to live/In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed,/Stewed in corruption, honeying and making love/Over the nasty sty!' he arraigns his mother in his earnest undertaking to force her to consider what she is doing (3.4). Shakespeare
The Edmonton Oilers dynasty of the 1980s was the direct antithesis of the Flyers.
Christ, did ye see 'em scutter like wee mousies wi 'a cat on their tails?" said one patient to another, seemingly oblivious of the nasty powder burn that had singed his left arm from knuckles to shoulder. Dragonfly in Amber
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That would make it nasty, brutish and short. Times, Sunday Times
Some fish can give you a nasty bite.
We'll lose some big cats such as cheetahs because they have insufficient genetic diversity to survive a nasty disease. Threats to our Future
Don't let those nasty e-mails and phone calls deter you from your position. Williams launches ad campaign against Harper
This was a nasty attack and the woman is still very shocked.
And face it, killing pretty cooing birds is always going to get a way worse reaction in a telephone survey than killing nasty, scraggly, filthy ole pigs. Poll Shows Iowans Oppose Dove Hunting
Well, some girls specialise in married men because they're dumb, nasty bitches who genuinely dislike other women.
Marketed as a "healthy smoking machine," this 3-in-1 gadget lights up your cigarettes then automatically "purifies" all the nasty smoke around you, all the while spraying the air with your favorite perfume. Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets
This is unfortunate because wasps are nasty little critters whose sole aim in life is to ruin picnics and barbecues.
I know that many in the tabloid media can be downright nasty and unpleasant, but I didn't think this would happen!
Truly nasty, one can see that these films also operated as some kind of twisted porn for neo-Nazis.
Famously, he had divorced Josephine the previous year in order to found a dynasty.
I assumed that she didn't want to be openly nasty to me in front of the children, and helped myself to some rashers of bacon and a new slice of toast.
Anyone on TV or in a major newspaper gets a lot of nasty mail, some from unhinged cranks.
De" was endowed with the meaning "moral" at the beginning of Chou Dynasty because of the development of "stare" and was thought as an inner quality that may belong to everybody.
Failing to win the support of his housemates, Mike descends from the roof, giving Clair a nasty shock in the process.
I have a nasty feeling unless something is done when all the old codgers like me are gone I don't know if it will still be remembered.
Yet rhodos have grown in the wilds of the world for thousands of years without chemical fertilizer, bloom booster, weevil killer, soil acidifier or any other manner of nasty toxin.
Since shareholders have a nasty habit of leaving, customers will probably have to bear the brunt of these losses and the bank may try to push profit margins even wider apart.
You could get a nasty shock from that water heater if it isn't earthed properly.
The outstanding characteristics of furniture during the Ming Dynasty were simplicity and naturalness.
The by-product is a concentrated form of vitrified nuclear waste that is as nasty as it sounds. Times, Sunday Times
Harry was a nasty foul-mouthed old devil.
Christie's had an auction offering a number of Asian collectibles, including an important bronze group of Shiva and Parvati from the Chola dynasty.
A soldier's life five centuries ago was nasty and brutish, but not necessarily short. Times, Sunday Times
When the consumer finally expires it could get really nasty. Times, Sunday Times
That burn will leave a nasty scar.
And Frank Langella, precise in hat and overcoat, is a polite and yet threatening presence as the man with the offer, and secrets of his own (and arather nasty CGI scar). IN THE WORLD OF MOVIES: NEWS FOR NOVEMBER 5TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
They correct none of the childish nasty tricks, which they get at school; nor the illiberal manners which they contract at the university; nor the frivolous and superficial pertness, which is commonly all that they acquire by their travels. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
Romulus later cases belong to this dynasty.
He's not nasty, cruel or bent on taking over the world.
Since an imperial harem numbered more than 5,000 wives, concubines, and eunuch guards at the height of the dynasty, the scale of cooking was gargantuan.
The Guardian's US journalists on Twitter In the UK, the rightwing Tories worked to ditch what they called the 'nasty party' image Did they export it over here? The Guardian World News
His resolutely secular wife, Asma, fits photogenically into the picture of a modern republican dynasty and works to promote civil society organisations. Syria is yet to play its cards
I had no idea who this nasty, vindictive, evil person was. Times, Sunday Times
I've got a nasty scratch on my car.
He was an honoured Christian poet in the court of the Umayyads and an ardent propagandist of this dynasty.
It was violent, and it was nasty, and it galumphed right along. THE ANTHOLOGIST
There had been a storm, though, I think, and the ship had run aground on an island ruled by some sort of nasty feudal overlord.
Of course, any number of fascinating and nasty parasites can join this microbial community and make the human body their home.
To a certain extreme, having your jean shorts altered and getting rid of the fringes can help minimize the nasty look of cut-off jeans.
I just checked my email and received quite a nasty one from someone who was practically wetting themself because I hadn't replied to an earlier email.
I am also fairly concerned about running into one of these little bastards, who look as if they give a nasty nip.
They say nasty things about him behind his back.
A nasty surprise awaited them in Rosemary Lane.
For those who enjoy eating out (or eating in with a takeaway) and thought that by avoiding junk food they could do so healthily, this will have come as a nasty shock.
Since it was almost 2 a.m. at this point the bar staff were starting to give us nasty looks, so we bundled into a taxi and made it home without incident.
Well sir, of course I don't mean real English cabbage stumps and potato parings, same as we has at home, but what answers for 'em here, and coky-nut huxes and shells, and banana rinds, and a nasty bad smelling kind o 'fruit as they calls doorings. Middy and Ensign
All viruses are malicious, nasty little programs written by misguided people.
The only person who comes forward to defend the McCanns seems to be an "army wife, army mother" who posts as Vancysgu, citing a book called The Skinback Fusiliers, which the Arrsers also delight in slagging off because it portrays trainees at Catterick Garrison in Yorkshire as "a gang of nasty little plonkers". Hugh Muir's diary
This has absolutely nothing to do with trolls, nasty emails or whiny posting.
I go to the counter and give the cheque to a guy who definitely did not have enough sleep last night and was in a mood for nasty snide remarks and evil glares.
Muhammadan tradition, which with rare exceptions is uniformly hostile to the Umayyad dynasty, regards Hussain ﮫﻨﻋﻰﻠﺎﻌﺘﷲﺍﻰﻀﺮ as a martyr and Yazid as his murderer. Archive 2009-07-01
In a little local sidelight, it was the Yuan dynasty that first started to breed horses in the Penghu archipelago for use in southern China.
My little granddaughter caught her heel in the spokes of her bicycle—it was a very nasty wound.
I don't like Kevin — he's got a nasty vindictive streak in him.
If you talk loudly, it can be very nasty on a hearing aid.
Through careful planning people can avoid inheritance tax, which can come as a nasty shock at what is bound to be an upsetting time.
That's why the droop and crinkle of middle-age is the source of such gloom, particularly as it has a nasty habit of catching you unawares.
Thus, in the middle of the dinner party, Miles announces that the team of solicitors he works for is called "Nasty, British and Short"; Anna, who bonded with Miles years before over repartee like "you can go assonate yourself", explains puns to Brooke with examples including "there's no business like slow business". There but for the, by Ali Smith – review
He had a nasty accident while riding in the forest.
After he achieved celebrity status through Dynasty he took to visiting hospitals and rehabilitation centres warning youngsters of the dangers of drugs.
I sense that we are in for a few more nasty disclosures before we're through.
I now await all the nasty comments from the hitch, newmania, verity and jus'passin'thru and more vulgar than a vulcans vulva...and of course anonymous... Quote of the Day
There's no story; no soppy lyrics; it's not exploitative or nasty; it's closer to circus, but with simpler tricks and better music.
It's an interesting bit of fence-mending for the former Democratic National Committee chairman, whose race for the gubernatorial nomination with Moran last year got pretty nasty. McAuliffe to campaign with former rival Moran
The cymbidium orchid became a popular subject for Chinese artists during the Song dynasty A.D. 960-1279 and was often painted in the dark ink of calligraphers. Free & easy
And far from being a nasty raptor, the barn owl is ecologically important for natural rodent control.
Even though a prickly pear may be visibly spineless, the glochids on paddles and fruits remain just as nasty.
Written records show that acupuncture dates back to the Song Dynasty.
A nasty flu bug's going round at the moment.
But he's the nasty solution to a worse problem that requires a deicidal madman. The Cultural Gutter
You'd better do what he says or he'll turn nasty.
His imperialists are often nasty folk who behaved horribly towards the natives under their yoke.
The dark dominate of the end of the Han Dynasty, the exclude of the ancient scholasticism, the lash of Taoism and Buddhism is the external cause of it's decline .
Other disasters include sorrel that grew well but attracted a nasty black beetle, valerian that soon dwarfed the conifer it was expected to complement, and strawberries.
Computers contain a variety of metals and chemicals - such as lead, mercury and brominated flame retardants - which are particularly nasty if dumped in landfill sites.
Her son and successor, Paul I, was a nasty autocrat who ruled only five years before he was murdered in his bedroom by a group of nobles. StarTribune.com rss feed
It is they which evoke remembrances of a lost war and exiled dynasty, a failed republic, a terrorist dictatorship, and horrendous devastation in the wake of still another lost war, and, finally, the trauma of a divided city.
The snakehead, a particularly nasty beast of a fish from Asia, is highly aggressive and a voracious predator.
The down side of motorcycles has always been the high level of accidents and the nasty injuries that even the slightest prang or bump can trigger.
Never in all her life had she seen something so disgusting so nasty happen.
Any resemblance to nasty industrial poutine is purely nominal. Globe and Mail
What Amis has also acknowledged as a writer is that nice things aren't necessarily as funny as nasty things.
The nasty bacterium responsible is a one-celled microscopic organism that kills by causing an infection in the small intestine.
In one sense, it is a job that he was born for, as the scion of a political dynasty. Times, Sunday Times
Damage it and you risk the nasty infection paronychia, says Bailey. Protecting the health of your nails for a polished look
The penis erects is activity of sex of a reflex, must issue the Later Zhou Dynasty of centre, spinal cord to surround nerval action ability to come true through pallium , cortex.
In Song Dynasty, people failed in trying to forbid the custom of cremate.
Until the Eastern Han Dynasty, historian with the ephemeris officer is always unity.
But you don't tell the gofer anything, you just use him to keep all the nasty stuff away. INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
It is a deliberate, nasty and vicious attack on a young man's character.
That dog will give you a nasty bite, given half a chance.
He gave me a nasty nip to the ear and I leaped away.
Popular character actor with a velvety voice, best remembered as the bull-headed, homophobic oil baron Blake Carrington on Dynasty. Tallulah Morehead: Dead Folks 2010: Everyone's Pushing Up Roses
For a moment, it looked like the undignified stunt would turn nasty.
The Liuwei Dihuang pill was produced in Song dynasty, and now it is widely applied to treat angiocardiopathy, cerebrovascular disease, endocrinopathy, urogenital system diseases, etc.
I tried to think of a nasty sarcastic comment to make him leave me alone, but none came to mind.
Jong-un, the youngest son and successor to the ruling dynasty started by his grandfather, was described as the "eternally immovable mental mainstay of the Korean people" by KCNA. Reuters: Top News
Raynal's Wrecked on a Reef is an articulate account written with great attention to the accurate recording of all the nasty, demanding details of their ordeal.
After a brief flirtation with the national interest, the aristocracy is back to putting dynasty before duty.
To save his dynasty from extinction, Grand Duke Karl needed to find a way to preserve the Z?hringen line. Granting succession rights to his half-uncles seemed the ideal solution.
Local economists have looked into their crystal balls and seen something rather nasty.
The Tang Dynasty appointed local clan chieftains to govern for them.
All nasty nouns should be replaced by the word "diphthong". Mamarazzi
Their dresses were pastel colours, with tulle, net, taffeta and nasty fake versions of all three, ruched and low cut. LOOKING FOR ANDREW MCCARTHY
Get set for the most miserable, petty, bitchy and nasty few weeks you've ever experienced.
With its overbearingly charismatic, slo-mo vocal, chomping techno stabs and Roland 303 squiggles twisted into tight new party balloon shapes, this is raw, unbridled fare from a label that's kept up the dark, crunching, nasty end of the dancefloor spectrum for over two decades. This week's new singles
Last time I had my teeth cleaned during my regular visit, I had a lot of nasty staining (apparently brought on by a change in caffeinated beverage type, no names because I need some evidence-based testing on that) that I was not able to clear up at home. Is Tooth Cleaning a Scam? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
The scion - which literally means the heir to an important family or dynasty - is that top bit. Times, Sunday Times
Many marine animals are poisonous, and you could receive a nasty sting - or worse.
Not so much by personal preference, but more so by the busy nature of my schoolwork and, of course, that nasty habit of playing computer games that irk parents so.
The news gave me a nasty shock.
Greenwich methinks is an extremely "/nasty/" place; but we had good cold chicken and strawberries. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
If you're suffering from a nasty hangover, you might want to try miso, which can readily replenish your body with lost vitamins and minerals.
Despite a tomb fresco , it is an uncommon portrait work in Tang dynasty.
In 1717, the Qing Dynasty Emperor Kangxi sent lamas to create a map of Tibet.
But the man who led the revolt is a thoroughly nasty piece of work.
He says some really nasty things but always with a smile on his face. The Sun
Without it I wouldn't know if the area became damaged or infected, leading to possible nasty complications.
Mara Stanfield, the president of the Daughters of River Heights Association, had a brick with a nasty note thrown through her house window. Sabotage Surrender
That way they know the streets will in the none to distance future, be safe for them and their loved ones, and they can go back to throwing brick bats from the side lines about nasty right wing authoritarin Police Forces, schools, courts, and Prisons. Take A Deep Breath….. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
I don't like the colour they've chosen for their new carpet it looks really nasty.
Any weakening in the all-powerful US economy could have a nasty flow-on effect.
The election campaign will be nasty, brutish and long and very expensive. Times, Sunday Times
It is of a monster enterprise monstering itself, of a family that can't get a grip – on itself or dad; of a dynasty falling apart as shareholders splutter and investors turned chicken cross the road. News Corp saga is gripping: let's soak up the family drama
Second, they were fighting an increasingly nasty little colonial war in Algeria.
What begins so promisingly as a satire or perhaps even comic romp leaves an uneasily nasty after-taste.
It was wet and windy topside, the fog thick, the chop starting to get nasty. CORMORANT
The Emperor at this time was Chien Lung, the best of the Manchu dynasty, a cultivated man, a patron of the arts, and an exquisite calligraphist. The Problem of China
It's a tacky, nasty little movie, frankly.
Publishers, apparently, found it a nasty shock to be ‘up against someone whose skill in driving a bargain equalled if not excelled their own’.
The nasty plotters who were found guilty yesterday have inflicted misery on untold millions. The Sun
He's clearly convinced we're all headed for a nasty apocalyptic end but he manages to be terribly jolly about the whole thing.
I felt quite deflated by your nasty remark.
I gave him a biff on the nose and he turned nasty.
It is a nasty and vicious circle. Times, Sunday Times
Yesterday, with both hands covered in stickiness and occupied cutting the wax capping from the top of the honeycomb, a lump of wax containing honey flew onto my leg and started running down in a nasty tickly way.
She had a nasty tongue, but I liked her.
The weather had turned much colder with a nasty North Easterly wind chilling all the lakes.
There is a sense that the worst is over and there aren't any nasty surprises lurking around the corner. Times, Sunday Times
He was Oda Yorimoto, descendant of a powerful daimio of the Ashikaga Dynasty of shoguns who had fled Japan with his faithful samurai nearly three hundred and fifty years before upon the overthrow of the Ashikaga Dynasty. The Mucker
The first is a rope climb down into a pool which culminates in a nasty little overhang; this is followed immediately by a superbly rigged rope-climb down an arête; and the third is a three metre climb.
He is aggressive and moody, often verbally nasty to me. Times, Sunday Times
My mother certainly dreamed of something similar and openly fantasised about which one of the children she could have adopted in order to make room for nine feet of MFI'd speckled faux-granite laminate and four tall stools, on which she could perch breakfasting on peach Ski yoghurt, drinking Mellow Bird's with Carnation evaporated milk and being, in a lot of ways like Heather Locklear from Dynasty, but living in Currock, Carlisle. How Britain fell in love with breakfast
I'm particularly partial to Roman delicacies such as tripe and offal, but after one particularly nasty plate of seared pig's flesh with beans, Bea decided to stick to her old favourite, spaghetti vongole.
We could see a group straggling behind, and then things got nasty; this was when several people were arrested and police dogs were used.
Nasty little brat she is. The Sun
Their dresses were pastel colours, with tulle, net, taffeta and nasty fake versions of all three, ruched and low cut. LOOKING FOR ANDREW MCCARTHY
He fell and got a nasty bang on the head.
In 1093 the Moors of the Almoravide dynasty, under the Caliph Yusuf, swept irresistibly upwards into the Iberian Peninsula, recapturing The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series
Its life would be nasty, brutish, and short. Christianity Today
Though he had a temper and could be nasty, it never lasted.
The Tang Dynasty appointed local clan chieftains to govern for them.
Darwin celebrated the nasty side of life -- brutal competition. Nigel Barber: Why Greed Is Bad for Capitalism
They were all sweetness and light when they were on top, but now that their little dynasty is threatened, they have become barroom brawlers. Moore: Clinton is trying to scare voters
When things were good they were amazing but when things got bad they were downright nasty. The Sun

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