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nastiness|ˈnɑːstɪnɪs, -æ-|
[f. nasty a. + -ness.]
1. Filthiness or foulness of persons, places, or things; disagreeable dirtiness or want of cleanliness; an instance of this, a filthy act or habit.
1611Cotgr., Souillarderie, sluttishnesse, nastinesse, greasinesse. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. ii. v. (1651) 83 Through their own nastiness, and sluttishness,..suffer their air to putrifie. 1679Penn Addr. Prot. ii. (1692) 201 The..Tedious Imprisonments, even to Death it self, through nastiness of Dungeons. 1719J. T. Phillips tr. Thirty-four Confer. 324 Spitting in your Houses, and some other daily Nastinesses committed by you. 1737L. Clarke Hist. Bible (1740) I. i. 104 That which increased his Misery was the Nastiness of his Distemper, which rendered him..loathsome to others. 1794S. Williams Hist. Vermont 154 Nothing can exceed the nastiness that appears in their food. 1803Malthus Popul. i. iv. (1817) I. 68 All voyagers agree with respect to the filth of the habitations, and the personal nastiness of the people.
b. That which is nasty; dirt, filth.
1611Cotgr., Souillure, soyle, filth, nastinesse. c1645Howell Lett. (1650) II. ii. 8 Here one shall see nor dog, nor cat, nor cage, to cause any nastines within the body of the House. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. i. 30 They are not subject to that filth and nastiness which breed among our Hair, if we be not careful to comb it well. 1703Maundrell Journ. Jerus. (1721) 9 The Houses were all fill'd with Dirt and Nastiness. 1769E. Bancroft Guiana 219 When the Snake is killed, it must first be washed clean, and freed from all filth and nastiness. 1808Med. Jrnl. XIX. 570 Where nastiness of every description, and putridity in its most loathsome forms, are to be found.
c. A filthy, disgusting, or repulsive thing.
1859Hughes Scour. White Horse vi. 124 Haven't you made me ill often enough with your nastinesses fifteen years ago? 1859Sala Tw. round Clock (1861) 43 Snowy lump⁓sugar has been refined by means of unutterable nastinesses of a sanguineous nature. 1871Miss Mulock Fair France ii. 52 No greasy nastinesses of stews.
2. Moral foulness or impurity; grossness, obscenity; talk or writing of this kind.
1700Dryden Pref. Fables Wks. (Globe) 507 The nastiness of Plautus and Aristophanes. 1785Reid Intell. Powers viii. i. 491 By bad habits men may acquire a relish for nastiness. 1870Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. i. (1873) 45 The common quality..of all Dryden's comedies is their nastiness.
3. Unpleasantness of flavour.
1868Atlantic Monthly Mar. 264 That quality of unmitigated nastiness which so familiarly attests the genuineness of our Western doses. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 627 Such sense of taste as remains is only capable of perceiving a bitter nastiness. |