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Adjective: nasty (nastier,nastiest)  năstee
  1. Offensive or even (of persons) malicious
    "in a nasty mood"; "a nasty accident"; "a nasty shock"; "a nasty smell"; "a nasty trick to pull"; "Will he say nasty things at my funeral?"
    - awful
     
  2. Exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent
    "a nasty problem"
    - tight
     
  3. Characterized by obscenity
    - cruddy, filthy, foul, smutty
     
  4. Disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter
    "a nasty pigsty of a room"
    - filthy, foul

Derived forms: nastiest, nastier

See also: difficult, dirty, filthy, grotty [Brit], hard, hateful, lousy, mean, nastily, nastiness, soiled, unclean, unpleasant

Antonym: nice

Encyclopedia: Nasty Nasty, Hertfordshire