| 单词 | nastiness |
| 释义 | nastiness (once / 16789 pages) n A person's nastiness is their characteristic of being hateful or spiteful. When you complain angrily about your meal at a restaurant, your nastiness isn't likely to help you get better food or service. Nastiness in people is generally unpleasant and malicious. You might be disgusted by the nastiness of a political campaign, or alarmed by the nastiness of most comments on a newspaper's website. The nastiness of a place, on the other hand, is characterized by filth and squalor: "The apartment's nastiness was captured in the flies buzzing around the kitchen trash can." You could also talk about the weather's nastiness on a bitterly cold, rainy day. WORD FAMILYnastiness: nastinesses+/nasty: nastier, nastiest, nastily, nastiness USAGE EXAMPLESNot the laughter that provides a temporary escape from the nastiness of the present, welcome though that is. The Guardian(Dec 26, 2016) What we’re left with are episodic delights, moments of creative nastiness and humor that goose the story along. New York Times(Dec 15, 2016) Lee Brock, the director, emphasizes that familiarity rather than accentuating the nastiness, and his impeccably matched actors have terrific timing. New York Times(Nov 20, 2016) 1n the quality of being unpleasant I flinched at the nastiness of his wound Ant|Hypo|Hyper niceness the quality of nice beastliness unpleasant nastiness; used especially of nasty weather unpleasantness the quality of giving displeasure 2n malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty Syn|Hyper bitchiness, cattiness, spite, spitefulness malevolence, malevolency, malice the quality of threatening evil 3n a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse Syn|Hyper filth, filthiness, foulness unsanitariness a state that is not conducive to health |
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