Definition of nasty in English:

nasty

adjectivenastiest, nastier ˈnɑːstiˈnæsti

1Very bad or unpleasant.
plastic bags burn with a nasty, acrid smell
塑料袋燃烧时散发出令人恶心的辛辣味道。
dad's had a nasty accident
Example sentencesExamples
- From there we went to a nasty bar full of hungry looking western men and western girls dressed like hookers who made an effort to look especially cheap and trashy.
- Just as I started to feel a bit, uh, constrained (I don't like enclosed spaces, let alone enclosed spaces full of nasty gas) we were let out into the fresh air.
- 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.
- Had a nasty shock mid-afternoon while trawling the net.
- Plans to build a new sewage plant to help free the air of nasty pongs should be given full support, a councillor said today.
- Monday's attack is the latest in a number of nasty incidents that have shocked locals in the town in recent weeks.
- He stalked out of the room before she said anything else nasty to him.
- Father, why do these words sound so nasty?
- Many firms are trying to set up such systems so that they avoid nasty shocks.
- Dinner was disgustingly gross and nasty; it was some custom British food that they all loved but non-British hated.
- Still, there are enough dangers on every side, especially from electrically operated gadgets that can give a nasty shock if handled the wrong way.
- "You probably have a pretty nasty hangover, " I said.
- This can come as a very nasty shock to customers.
- Now if we don't get a nasty shock from a popped housing bubble, we'll be in very good shape.
- You will be laughing, mind you, but some of the gore is fairly nasty.
- Through careful planning people can avoid inheritance tax, which can come as a nasty shock at what is bound to be an upsetting time.
- Publishers, apparently, found it a nasty shock to be ‘up against someone whose skill in driving a bargain equalled if not excelled their own’.
- It's a huge skull full of nasty things like rats and guts and caffeine and lifeless craniums and free stuff from the sponsors.
- This might come as a shock to some people, but chickens are the most stinky, repulsive and nasty creatures to walk the earth.
- Then things get really nasty: the new robots are released.
- After a shower last night and a shower this morning, I can still smell the nasty stench of the awful artificial concoction.
- As we all know, Garry was in for a rather nasty surprise.
Synonyms
unpleasant, disagreeable, disgusting, distasteful, awful, dreadful, horrible, terrible, vile, foul, abominable, frightful, loathsome, revolting, repulsive, odious, sickening, nauseating, nauseous, repellent, repugnant, horrendous, hideous, appalling, atrocious, offensive, objectionable, obnoxious, unpalatable, unsavoury, unappetizing, off-putting, uninviting, dirty, filthy, squalid
noxious, evil-smelling, foul-smelling, smelly, stinking, rank, rancid, fetid, malodorous, acrid
informal ghastly, horrid, gruesome, putrid, diabolical, yucky, sick-making, God-awful, gross, icky, stinky
British informal beastly, grotty, whiffy, pongy, niffy
North American informal lousy, skanky, funky
Australian informal on the nose
literary noisome, mephitic
archaic disgustful, loathly
rare miasmal, olid
serious, dangerous, bad, awful, dreadful, terrible, frightful, critical, severe, grave, alarming, worrying, concerning
painful, ugly
1. 1.1 (of the weather) unpleasantly cold or wet.
  （天气）湿冷的；极恶劣的
  it's a nasty old night
  这是个湿冷的鬼夜晚。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Having just got back from the shops near where I work, I am quite wet, having been caught in a bit of a nasty downpour.
  Hey, who couldn't love a sport that makes it fun to be outdoors in nasty weather?
  Despite the nasty weather, she had picked this day to walk into town and get something to eat before she made the long journey home.
  This will help you to determine where you can stop should anything unexpected arise like a prematurely grumbly tummy or a nasty storm.
  He had to drive through a nasty hurricane to get there, which was interesting, but that's not the best part of the story.
  The weather was nasty, very, very stormy and a lot of people were seasick.
  Sunday morning arrived just as the weatherman predicted - nasty with cold, clouds, rain, and snow.
  A few months ago, we had a nasty hail storm in Central Iowa.
  The once blue sky was already turning angry black, threatening all those below it with a very nasty rain.
  Most of what she could see was that there was a nasty storm picking up.
  This allows easy access at night or in nasty weather.
  The weather had turned much colder with a nasty North Easterly wind chilling all the lakes.
  Normal hail grows up as a drop of rain and is chosen to be frozen and sent to Earth as an envoy of impending nasty winter weather.
  Despite an occasional nasty storm, Florida still is as close to paradise as you can get year-round.
  This is very moderate by comparison, but still very nasty weather.
  An uncomfortable silence hung over them like a nasty fog as she waited for a gasp of shock and a whole barrage of scolding to fall onto her sister, but none came.
  It also was a week that began with nasty weather.
  If the weather however is cold and nasty, then they know they have to prepare to bite their tongue this coming year.
  This monster crashed our plane in that nasty storm and got us all lost!
  After what seemed like an eternity of thick fog and really nasty weather, the skies finally cleared up yesterday.
  Synonyms
  unpleasant, disagreeable, foul, filthy, inclement
  wet, rainy, stormy, cold, foggy, blustery, squally
2. 1.2 Repugnant to the mind.
  烦人的，讨厌的；下流的，龌龊的
  her stories are very nasty, full of murder and violence
  她的故事充斥了谋杀和暴力，让人厌恶。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I want to think of something to insult you at the moment, but nothing comes to mind that's nasty enough not to compliment you.
  Sorry, but my mind has been overflowing with nice things and nasty things in equal measure.
  Joe tried to look as his normal-self again; but his mind kept exploding with nasty thoughts towards the girl, Laura.
  The nasty aspect of contemporary workplace bullying is that it is directed towards senior employees.
  Am in a really nasty horrible, scream and shouting kind of mood now.
  Perhaps yesterday afternoon I slipped into a parallel world where everyone was really nasty, full of hate and not afraid of showing it?
  ‘Sectarianism is a community disease - a nasty attitude of the mind like racism,’ he says.
  But the man who led the revolt is a thoroughly nasty piece of work.
  So is this the nasty party shedding its repulsive past?
  Both games are full of nasty, sadistic violence, leavened just enough by irony and black humor to be tolerable.
  You have to be brutal and horrible, almost nasty.
  By this I mean that you are doubting your reasoning to attain goals, such as to stop smoking, and filling it full of nasty outcomes, due to this lack of self belief in your intent.
  It is an unspeakable act of violence carried out by unspeakably nasty vicious bloodthirsty thugs.
  Never in all her life had she seen something so disgusting so nasty happen.
  Because once people meet me, they can see that I'm not a one-eyed monster, a horrible evil nasty guy.
  Like a cartoonist exaggerates a big nose for effect, we use the full power of nasty words as explosives to get our point across.
  He was a miserable little narrow minded bigot with a nasty temper.
  But, hold on, I hear you say, they really are repugnant, nasty, racist scum.
  The bad guys coming out full of nasty tricks, the good guys seeing their world crumble around them as everything that can go wrong does.
  If I thought I had seen dirty political tricks as nasty and vile as they could get, I was wrong.
  Synonyms
  hateful, detestable, abhorrent, repulsive, odious, repugnant, repellent, disgusting, revolting, sickening, nauseating, abominable, despicable, contemptible, reprehensible, execrable, damnable
2Behaving in an unpleasant or spiteful way.
（人，动物）使人厌恶的；恶意的
Harry was a nasty, foul-mouthed old devil
哈里是个令人厌恶、满嘴脏话的老魔鬼。
Example sentencesExamples
- Most of them just need jobs, and these jobs are extremely easy to get because of the undesirable, and downright horribly nasty and cruel, nature of the work.
- It is a cause of concern and was a very vicious and nasty attack and we are treating it as a racially motivated incident.
- To face a life of ridicule after having your story published in the paper, and on the internet, linked to by as many cruel and nasty people as possible.
- All this festive cheer is starting to become a bit boring, so why not join us on a needless, hurtful, and downright nasty hate campaign against someone we've never met?
- Still, at least I had a new toy to take my mind off all the nasty comments I was getting.
- Not just a grudge, but a hateful, vindictive, nasty bitterness that I didn't even know existed until this person's name was brought up.
- He admits that he ‘may be overzealous at times,’ maybe even nasty or rude.
- If you are nasty, rude or don't follow the rules you can also get flamed.
- In the past I would have cringed at calling someone something so inhuman, but I hadn't met anyone as nasty and rude as Christine before, so the name was justified.
- Being nasty, rude, shrewish and creepy was very fun to do - I simply pretended to be in a bad mood each time the camera rolled.
- The attendant could have informed me that, sorry, store policy didn't allow men in the dressing rooms, without the rude look or the nasty comments.
- That just proves something else, he's selfish - finding humour in someone else's misfortune, is a cruel and nasty thing to do.
- His imperialists are often nasty folk who behaved horribly towards the natives under their yoke.
- I don't understand why someone would do that, unless they are nasty and hurtful.
- Sometimes, the most rational interpretation of someone's behaviour is that they are nasty, sadistic or cruel.
- He's not nasty, cruel or bent on taking over the world.
- You are foul, surly, nasty, unhelpful, unpleasant and clearly you have a lot of issues.
- Girls engage in catty behavior and nasty comments, judging each other on appearance and material possessions.
- A voice that was nasty and spiteful, leaping at any chance to cause her pain.
- But if you've been nasty, bad, rude… people will remember that side of you.
Synonyms
unkind, unpleasant, unfriendly, disagreeable, inconsiderate, uncharitable, rude, churlish, spiteful, malicious, mean, mean-spirited, ill-tempered, ill-natured, ill-humoured, bad-tempered, hostile, vicious, malevolent, evil-minded, surly, obnoxious, poisonous, venomous, vindictive, malign, malignant, cantankerous, hateful, hurtful, cruel, wounding, abusive
informal bitchy, catty
vulgar slang shitty
1. 2.1 Annoying or unwelcome.
  恼人的；不受欢迎的
  life has a nasty habit of repeating itself
  生活总是讨厌地重复。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Unfortunately, plenty of investors develop the nasty habit of boasting of their gains instead of contemplating possible overvaluation concerns.
  But at the very least we must do our own house cleaning, change our downright nasty habits of further polluting an already over-polluted environment.
  Opinion polls have a nasty habit of entrenching prejudices.
  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.
  Maybe there's a patch on the market to help politicians quit this nasty habit.
  Also, midges have a nasty habit of crawling up trouser legs and even into lace-holes on hiking boots, so they will get you one way or another.
  But events have this nasty habit of coming along and disturbing all your best-laid plans, don't they?
  Unfortunately, this type of viewing can become a nasty habit that, in the end, sabotages any meaningful engagement with sports.
  In the nursery school language of heroes and villains, there is no word for someone capable of good and bad, so the disappointment has a nasty habit of being backdated.
  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.
  Over time, politicians develop various nasty habits, and one of them is the use of phrases that do not actually mean what they say.
  Just too many nasty trick questions and annoying video clips of past statements, but that's why you get the big money.
  In recent years, birthdays have had a nasty habit of getting me thinking too much, recalling memories I'd rather not recall and conducting one too many internal dialogues.
  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.
  For one thing, the author has a nasty habit of separating sentences with a comma, when a semi-colon would be far more appropriate.
  The trouble with pulling the covers over your head and hiding from reality is that reality has a nasty habit of sticking around.
  Some e-tailers have a nasty habit of taking your money as soon as you place an order, then not dispatching the goods for several months.
  Mail, keys, change, Peter's camera equipment, books, plastic bags, and all manner of other debris have a nasty habit of collecting on that coffee table.
  Synonyms
  annoying, irritating, infuriating, unwelcome, disagreeable, unpleasant, unfortunate, maddening, exasperating, irksome, vexing, vexatious
  informal aggravating, pesky
3Damaging or harmful.
a nasty, vicious-looking hatchet
一把看上去杀气腾腾、令人寒战的短柄小斧。
Example sentencesExamples
- If left unchecked, free radicals cause nasty damage to the body's cell membranes and DNA.
- Your luscious locks can also suffer from heat damage and nasty rays from the sun so they need some protection too.
- It takes about five minutes to get to the surface without bursting your lungs or doing some other nasty damage to your body.
- They could still do some quite nasty damage if people inadvertently handled them or were exposed to them.
Synonyms
poisonous, toxic, deadly, virulent

nounPlural nasties ˈnɑːstiˈnæsti

informal

1An unpleasant or harmful person or thing.
〈非正式〉令人不快的人（或物）；有害的人（或物）
a water conditioner to neutralize chlorine and other nasties
用以中和氯和其他有害物质的水质调节剂。
Example sentencesExamples
- This place is run by a collection of idiots and nasties, who force the boys to dig holes in the sweltering sun.
- It works so well because many of these microscopic nasties are, rather like horror movie vampires, extremely sensitive to light.
- He lives there with Cynthia, paranoid that the nasties out to get him in the first film will return.
- A laconic, crimson-coloured anti-hero, he is a half-human, half-demon agent in a government agency that fights paranormal nasties.
- Because just as in the 19th century the water contained little nasties so today does the internet.
- Neill turns on the boy, and in low, menacing tones, he demonstrates to the child how a prehistoric nasty would mangle and devour him.
- Some of those little nasties found innocent of producing havoc in the immune system were: low ferritin concentrations and elevated uric acid and phosphokinase and cortisol levels.
- The problem with these nasties is that they lack motivation: it's impossible to tell whether they act out of naïvety, malice or both.
- The land tax sting is going to be quite a political nasty.
- The board uses through-hole construction rather than surface-mount, and is housed in a stainless-steel chassis, providing maximum shielding from external nasties.
- The bad guys again break one of the cardinal rules for being an evil nasty: When you have the chance to kill your nemesis, do it!
- The bathroom is a common place to find bacteria and other nasties lurking.
- Together, they are close to finding a way to vaporise the nasties once and for all.
- Firstly, both human and digital nasties constantly evolve, as do the malicious tactics of intruders.
- One wonders what other accounting nasties lurk beneath the surface in regard to other telecoms companies.
- In Australia, medical specialists and toxicologists know about the cancer links, but the research hasn't been done in this country to separate diesel exhaust from other nasties in the environment.
- Yet despite the presence of molds, bacteria, and other nasties, most archaeological sites, including tombs, have proven safe for science and tourism alike.
- He plays a 21 st-century courier, who can download computer information directly into his brain, on the run from a variety of nasties intent on pulling his plug.
- Computer users need to protect their PCs from all the nasties spreading on the internet.
1. 1.1 A horror video or film.
  恐怖录像（或影片）。参见VIDEO NASTY
  See also video nasty
  Example sentencesExamples
  I want to see horror hark back to the old days of video nasties.
  Blockbusters won't be stocking the new nasties.

Phrases

a nasty one

informal An awkward question or task.
〈非正式〉棘手的问题（或任务）
Example sentencesExamples
- This particular module was a nasty one: it modified the behavior of certain system calls to hide itself from the lsmod command and to hide the presence of scanners, crackers, sniffer logs and other such files.
- I knew his expressions too well, and he would defiantly give me a nasty one this time.
- ‘That was a nasty one,’ Eric commented jovially, melting out of the trees in his brown uniform.

a nasty piece (or bit) of work

informal An unpleasant or untrustworthy person.
〈非正式〉令人不快的人（或物）；有害的人（或物）
if you ask me he's a nasty piece of work
Example sentencesExamples
- He was a nasty piece of work and generally was avoided by the other prisoners who knew his reputation.
- Your behaviour makes it clear that you are a nasty piece of work who abuses those who love you in order to get what you want.
- Don't rely on Lady Fortune: I know her well, and she can be a nasty piece of work at times!
- She is a nasty piece of work and people used to give her a very wide berth.
- He is a nasty piece of work, and has to go, but there must be other ways to sort this out.
- A womaniser, unfaithful, just a nasty piece of work.
- He's widely known to be a nasty piece of work and I hope he gets long suspension.
- Altogether a nasty piece of work, but a delight to get into the head of and write.
- Until last week he was out on parole, having served more than half of a seven-year sentence for being a nasty piece of work.
- Convention says that the Florentine civil servant, power-broker and writer, Niccolo Machiavelli, was a nasty piece of work.
Synonyms
wretch

Derivatives

nastily

adverb ˈnɑːstɪli

What I mean here is that when the Romans had a mutiny, obviously you can't kill everyone in a mutinous army as you'd have no army, so they killed some of them really nastily, and made the others watch.
Example sentencesExamples
- It will fight nastily, brutally and with no compunction.
- Equally, why are stay-at-home mums so nastily eager to imagine that the children of their working sisters are damaged, unloved, neurotic, tormented?
- This sounds like a nastily mixed metaphor, but just go with it.
- She was very strange, and I don't mean that nastily.

Origin

Late Middle English: of unknown origin.

The origins of nasty, which was first recorded in the Middle Ages, are uncertain, although it is probably related to Dutch and Swedish words with similar meaning. It originally meant ‘filthy, offensively dirty’, but its force has been gradually toned down, although in America it remains a more strongly negative term than it is in Britain. The phrase something nasty in the woodshed comes from the comic novel Cold Comfort Farm (1932) by Stella Gibbons: Aunt Ada Doom's peculiarities are explained by the fact that when she was small she had seen something nasty in the woodshed, but we are never told what. Nasty piece of work or nasty bit of work, ‘an unpleasant person’, is a slang term first found in a 1923 book by the author ‘Bartimeus’ (the pseudonym for Lewis Anselm da Costa Ricci). ‘Bartimeus’ wrote books on a nautical theme, such as Naval Occasions and Seaways, and it is possible that the expression originated as naval slang. In informal English nasty can also be a noun, meaning ‘a nasty person’ or ‘an unpleasant or harmful thing’. Today it is most often found in connection with gratuitously violent or pornographic films or video nasties, a use first recorded in the early 1980s.

Definition of nasty in US English:

nasty

adjectiveˈnæstiˈnastē

1Highly unpleasant, especially to the senses; physically nauseating.
令人作呕的；恶心的
plastic bags burn with a nasty, acrid smell
塑料袋燃烧时散发出令人恶心的辛辣味道。
Example sentencesExamples
- This might come as a shock to some people, but chickens are the most stinky, repulsive and nasty creatures to walk the earth.
- This can come as a very nasty shock to customers.
- It's a huge skull full of nasty things like rats and guts and caffeine and lifeless craniums and free stuff from the sponsors.
- You will be laughing, mind you, but some of the gore is fairly nasty.
- He stalked out of the room before she said anything else nasty to him.
- As we all know, Garry was in for a rather nasty surprise.
- "You probably have a pretty nasty hangover, " I said.
- 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.
- From there we went to a nasty bar full of hungry looking western men and western girls dressed like hookers who made an effort to look especially cheap and trashy.
- Father, why do these words sound so nasty?
- Now if we don't get a nasty shock from a popped housing bubble, we'll be in very good shape.
- Then things get really nasty: the new robots are released.
- Publishers, apparently, found it a nasty shock to be ‘up against someone whose skill in driving a bargain equalled if not excelled their own’.
- Just as I started to feel a bit, uh, constrained (I don't like enclosed spaces, let alone enclosed spaces full of nasty gas) we were let out into the fresh air.
- Monday's attack is the latest in a number of nasty incidents that have shocked locals in the town in recent weeks.
- After a shower last night and a shower this morning, I can still smell the nasty stench of the awful artificial concoction.
- Many firms are trying to set up such systems so that they avoid nasty shocks.
- Dinner was disgustingly gross and nasty; it was some custom British food that they all loved but non-British hated.
- Still, there are enough dangers on every side, especially from electrically operated gadgets that can give a nasty shock if handled the wrong way.
- Had a nasty shock mid-afternoon while trawling the net.
- Through careful planning people can avoid inheritance tax, which can come as a nasty shock at what is bound to be an upsetting time.
- Plans to build a new sewage plant to help free the air of nasty pongs should be given full support, a councillor said today.
Synonyms
unpleasant, disagreeable, disgusting, distasteful, awful, dreadful, horrible, terrible, vile, foul, abominable, frightful, loathsome, revolting, repulsive, odious, sickening, nauseating, nauseous, repellent, repugnant, horrendous, hideous, appalling, atrocious, offensive, objectionable, obnoxious, unpalatable, unsavoury, unappetizing, off-putting, uninviting, dirty, filthy, squalid
serious, dangerous, bad, awful, dreadful, terrible, frightful, critical, severe, grave, alarming, worrying, concerning
1. 1.1 (of the weather) unpleasantly cold or wet.
  （天气）湿冷的；极恶劣的
  a cold, nasty day
  Example sentencesExamples
  The weather had turned much colder with a nasty North Easterly wind chilling all the lakes.
  An uncomfortable silence hung over them like a nasty fog as she waited for a gasp of shock and a whole barrage of scolding to fall onto her sister, but none came.
  Hey, who couldn't love a sport that makes it fun to be outdoors in nasty weather?
  Despite an occasional nasty storm, Florida still is as close to paradise as you can get year-round.
  Despite the nasty weather, she had picked this day to walk into town and get something to eat before she made the long journey home.
  The weather was nasty, very, very stormy and a lot of people were seasick.
  It also was a week that began with nasty weather.
  Having just got back from the shops near where I work, I am quite wet, having been caught in a bit of a nasty downpour.
  Most of what she could see was that there was a nasty storm picking up.
  The once blue sky was already turning angry black, threatening all those below it with a very nasty rain.
  After what seemed like an eternity of thick fog and really nasty weather, the skies finally cleared up yesterday.
  He had to drive through a nasty hurricane to get there, which was interesting, but that's not the best part of the story.
  Sunday morning arrived just as the weatherman predicted - nasty with cold, clouds, rain, and snow.
  If the weather however is cold and nasty, then they know they have to prepare to bite their tongue this coming year.
  This will help you to determine where you can stop should anything unexpected arise like a prematurely grumbly tummy or a nasty storm.
  This is very moderate by comparison, but still very nasty weather.
  A few months ago, we had a nasty hail storm in Central Iowa.
  This allows easy access at night or in nasty weather.
  This monster crashed our plane in that nasty storm and got us all lost!
  Normal hail grows up as a drop of rain and is chosen to be frozen and sent to Earth as an envoy of impending nasty winter weather.
  Synonyms
  unpleasant, disagreeable, foul, filthy, inclement
2. 1.2 Repugnant to the mind; morally bad.
  烦人的，讨厌的；下流的，龌龊的
  her stories are very nasty, full of murder and violence
  她的故事充斥了谋杀和暴力，让人厌恶。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I want to think of something to insult you at the moment, but nothing comes to mind that's nasty enough not to compliment you.
  But, hold on, I hear you say, they really are repugnant, nasty, racist scum.
  Like a cartoonist exaggerates a big nose for effect, we use the full power of nasty words as explosives to get our point across.
  You have to be brutal and horrible, almost nasty.
  He was a miserable little narrow minded bigot with a nasty temper.
  Because once people meet me, they can see that I'm not a one-eyed monster, a horrible evil nasty guy.
  Never in all her life had she seen something so disgusting so nasty happen.
  By this I mean that you are doubting your reasoning to attain goals, such as to stop smoking, and filling it full of nasty outcomes, due to this lack of self belief in your intent.
  The nasty aspect of contemporary workplace bullying is that it is directed towards senior employees.
  But the man who led the revolt is a thoroughly nasty piece of work.
  Joe tried to look as his normal-self again; but his mind kept exploding with nasty thoughts towards the girl, Laura.
  The bad guys coming out full of nasty tricks, the good guys seeing their world crumble around them as everything that can go wrong does.
  ‘Sectarianism is a community disease - a nasty attitude of the mind like racism,’ he says.
  Both games are full of nasty, sadistic violence, leavened just enough by irony and black humor to be tolerable.
  Perhaps yesterday afternoon I slipped into a parallel world where everyone was really nasty, full of hate and not afraid of showing it?
  So is this the nasty party shedding its repulsive past?
  It is an unspeakable act of violence carried out by unspeakably nasty vicious bloodthirsty thugs.
  If I thought I had seen dirty political tricks as nasty and vile as they could get, I was wrong.
  Am in a really nasty horrible, scream and shouting kind of mood now.
  Sorry, but my mind has been overflowing with nice things and nasty things in equal measure.
  Synonyms
  hateful, detestable, abhorrent, repulsive, odious, repugnant, repellent, disgusting, revolting, sickening, nauseating, abominable, despicable, contemptible, reprehensible, execrable, damnable
2(of a person or animal) behaving in an unpleasant or spiteful way.
（人，动物）使人厌恶的；恶意的
Harry was a nasty, foul-mouthed old devil
哈里是个令人厌恶、满嘴脏话的老魔鬼。
when she confronted him, he turned nasty
她一与他对抗，他就变得恶毒起来。
Example sentencesExamples
- It is a cause of concern and was a very vicious and nasty attack and we are treating it as a racially motivated incident.
- To face a life of ridicule after having your story published in the paper, and on the internet, linked to by as many cruel and nasty people as possible.
- Sometimes, the most rational interpretation of someone's behaviour is that they are nasty, sadistic or cruel.
- I don't understand why someone would do that, unless they are nasty and hurtful.
- Girls engage in catty behavior and nasty comments, judging each other on appearance and material possessions.
- That just proves something else, he's selfish - finding humour in someone else's misfortune, is a cruel and nasty thing to do.
- Most of them just need jobs, and these jobs are extremely easy to get because of the undesirable, and downright horribly nasty and cruel, nature of the work.
- But if you've been nasty, bad, rude… people will remember that side of you.
- The attendant could have informed me that, sorry, store policy didn't allow men in the dressing rooms, without the rude look or the nasty comments.
- In the past I would have cringed at calling someone something so inhuman, but I hadn't met anyone as nasty and rude as Christine before, so the name was justified.
- Not just a grudge, but a hateful, vindictive, nasty bitterness that I didn't even know existed until this person's name was brought up.
- If you are nasty, rude or don't follow the rules you can also get flamed.
- Being nasty, rude, shrewish and creepy was very fun to do - I simply pretended to be in a bad mood each time the camera rolled.
- You are foul, surly, nasty, unhelpful, unpleasant and clearly you have a lot of issues.
- Still, at least I had a new toy to take my mind off all the nasty comments I was getting.
- His imperialists are often nasty folk who behaved horribly towards the natives under their yoke.
- He admits that he ‘may be overzealous at times,’ maybe even nasty or rude.
- A voice that was nasty and spiteful, leaping at any chance to cause her pain.
- He's not nasty, cruel or bent on taking over the world.
- All this festive cheer is starting to become a bit boring, so why not join us on a needless, hurtful, and downright nasty hate campaign against someone we've never met?
Synonyms
unkind, unpleasant, unfriendly, disagreeable, inconsiderate, uncharitable, rude, churlish, spiteful, malicious, mean, mean-spirited, ill-tempered, ill-natured, ill-humoured, bad-tempered, hostile, vicious, malevolent, evil-minded, surly, obnoxious, poisonous, venomous, vindictive, malign, malignant, cantankerous, hateful, hurtful, cruel, wounding, abusive
1. 2.1 Annoying or unwelcome.
  恼人的；不受欢迎的
  life has a nasty habit of repeating itself
  生活总是讨厌地重复。
  Example sentencesExamples
  For one thing, the author has a nasty habit of separating sentences with a comma, when a semi-colon would be far more appropriate.
  Over time, politicians develop various nasty habits, and one of them is the use of phrases that do not actually mean what they say.
  Unfortunately, this type of viewing can become a nasty habit that, in the end, sabotages any meaningful engagement with sports.
  In the nursery school language of heroes and villains, there is no word for someone capable of good and bad, so the disappointment has a nasty habit of being backdated.
  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.
  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.
  Opinion polls have a nasty habit of entrenching prejudices.
  The trouble with pulling the covers over your head and hiding from reality is that reality has a nasty habit of sticking around.
  But events have this nasty habit of coming along and disturbing all your best-laid plans, don't they?
  Mail, keys, change, Peter's camera equipment, books, plastic bags, and all manner of other debris have a nasty habit of collecting on that coffee table.
  Also, midges have a nasty habit of crawling up trouser legs and even into lace-holes on hiking boots, so they will get you one way or another.
  But at the very least we must do our own house cleaning, change our downright nasty habits of further polluting an already over-polluted environment.
  Some e-tailers have a nasty habit of taking your money as soon as you place an order, then not dispatching the goods for several months.
  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.
  In recent years, birthdays have had a nasty habit of getting me thinking too much, recalling memories I'd rather not recall and conducting one too many internal dialogues.
  Unfortunately, plenty of investors develop the nasty habit of boasting of their gains instead of contemplating possible overvaluation concerns.
  Just too many nasty trick questions and annoying video clips of past statements, but that's why you get the big money.
  Maybe there's a patch on the market to help politicians quit this nasty habit.
  Synonyms
  annoying, irritating, infuriating, unwelcome, disagreeable, unpleasant, unfortunate, maddening, exasperating, irksome, vexing, vexatious
3Physically or mentally damaging or harmful.
（对身体或精神）有损伤（或有害）的；能伤身的；令人不快的
a nasty, vicious-looking hatchet
一把看上去杀气腾腾、令人寒战的短柄小斧。
Example sentencesExamples
- If left unchecked, free radicals cause nasty damage to the body's cell membranes and DNA.
- Your luscious locks can also suffer from heat damage and nasty rays from the sun so they need some protection too.
- It takes about five minutes to get to the surface without bursting your lungs or doing some other nasty damage to your body.
- They could still do some quite nasty damage if people inadvertently handled them or were exposed to them.
Synonyms
poisonous, toxic, deadly, virulent

nounˈnæstiˈnastē

often nastiesinformal

1An unpleasant or harmful person or thing.
〈非正式〉令人不快的人（或物）；有害的人（或物）
bacteria and other nasties
Example sentencesExamples
- The bathroom is a common place to find bacteria and other nasties lurking.
- It works so well because many of these microscopic nasties are, rather like horror movie vampires, extremely sensitive to light.
- Together, they are close to finding a way to vaporise the nasties once and for all.
- Some of those little nasties found innocent of producing havoc in the immune system were: low ferritin concentrations and elevated uric acid and phosphokinase and cortisol levels.
- The bad guys again break one of the cardinal rules for being an evil nasty: When you have the chance to kill your nemesis, do it!
- Yet despite the presence of molds, bacteria, and other nasties, most archaeological sites, including tombs, have proven safe for science and tourism alike.
- Computer users need to protect their PCs from all the nasties spreading on the internet.
- The board uses through-hole construction rather than surface-mount, and is housed in a stainless-steel chassis, providing maximum shielding from external nasties.
- Because just as in the 19th century the water contained little nasties so today does the internet.
- One wonders what other accounting nasties lurk beneath the surface in regard to other telecoms companies.
- The problem with these nasties is that they lack motivation: it's impossible to tell whether they act out of naïvety, malice or both.
- The land tax sting is going to be quite a political nasty.
- Firstly, both human and digital nasties constantly evolve, as do the malicious tactics of intruders.
- A laconic, crimson-coloured anti-hero, he is a half-human, half-demon agent in a government agency that fights paranormal nasties.
- He lives there with Cynthia, paranoid that the nasties out to get him in the first film will return.
- He plays a 21 st-century courier, who can download computer information directly into his brain, on the run from a variety of nasties intent on pulling his plug.
- In Australia, medical specialists and toxicologists know about the cancer links, but the research hasn't been done in this country to separate diesel exhaust from other nasties in the environment.
- This place is run by a collection of idiots and nasties, who force the boys to dig holes in the sweltering sun.
- Neill turns on the boy, and in low, menacing tones, he demonstrates to the child how a prehistoric nasty would mangle and devour him.
1. 1.1 A horror video or movie.
  恐怖录像（或影片）。参见VIDEO NASTY
  Example sentencesExamples
  I want to see horror hark back to the old days of video nasties.
  Blockbusters won't be stocking the new nasties.

Origin

Late Middle English: of unknown origin.

单词	nasty
释义	Definition of nasty in English: nasty adjectivenastiest, nastier ˈnɑːstiˈnæsti 1Very bad or unpleasant. plastic bags burn with a nasty, acrid smell 塑料袋燃烧时散发出令人恶心的辛辣味道。 dad's had a nasty accident Example sentencesExamples From there we went to a nasty bar full of hungry looking western men and western girls dressed like hookers who made an effort to look especially cheap and trashy. Just as I started to feel a bit, uh, constrained (I don't like enclosed spaces, let alone enclosed spaces full of nasty gas) we were let out into the fresh air. 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. Had a nasty shock mid-afternoon while trawling the net. Plans to build a new sewage plant to help free the air of nasty pongs should be given full support, a councillor said today. Monday's attack is the latest in a number of nasty incidents that have shocked locals in the town in recent weeks. He stalked out of the room before she said anything else nasty to him. Father, why do these words sound so nasty? Many firms are trying to set up such systems so that they avoid nasty shocks. Dinner was disgustingly gross and nasty; it was some custom British food that they all loved but non-British hated. Still, there are enough dangers on every side, especially from electrically operated gadgets that can give a nasty shock if handled the wrong way. "You probably have a pretty nasty hangover, " I said. This can come as a very nasty shock to customers. Now if we don't get a nasty shock from a popped housing bubble, we'll be in very good shape. You will be laughing, mind you, but some of the gore is fairly nasty. Through careful planning people can avoid inheritance tax, which can come as a nasty shock at what is bound to be an upsetting time. Publishers, apparently, found it a nasty shock to be ‘up against someone whose skill in driving a bargain equalled if not excelled their own’. It's a huge skull full of nasty things like rats and guts and caffeine and lifeless craniums and free stuff from the sponsors. This might come as a shock to some people, but chickens are the most stinky, repulsive and nasty creatures to walk the earth. Then things get really nasty: the new robots are released. After a shower last night and a shower this morning, I can still smell the nasty stench of the awful artificial concoction. As we all know, Garry was in for a rather nasty surprise. Synonyms unpleasant, disagreeable, disgusting, distasteful, awful, dreadful, horrible, terrible, vile, foul, abominable, frightful, loathsome, revolting, repulsive, odious, sickening, nauseating, nauseous, repellent, repugnant, horrendous, hideous, appalling, atrocious, offensive, objectionable, obnoxious, unpalatable, unsavoury, unappetizing, off-putting, uninviting, dirty, filthy, squalid noxious, evil-smelling, foul-smelling, smelly, stinking, rank, rancid, fetid, malodorous, acrid informal ghastly, horrid, gruesome, putrid, diabolical, yucky, sick-making, God-awful, gross, icky, stinky British informal beastly, grotty, whiffy, pongy, niffy North American informal lousy, skanky, funky Australian informal on the nose literary noisome, mephitic archaic disgustful, loathly rare miasmal, olid serious, dangerous, bad, awful, dreadful, terrible, frightful, critical, severe, grave, alarming, worrying, concerning painful, ugly 1.1 (of the weather) unpleasantly cold or wet. （天气）湿冷的；极恶劣的 it's a nasty old night 这是个湿冷的鬼夜晚。 Example sentencesExamples Having just got back from the shops near where I work, I am quite wet, having been caught in a bit of a nasty downpour. Hey, who couldn't love a sport that makes it fun to be outdoors in nasty weather? Despite the nasty weather, she had picked this day to walk into town and get something to eat before she made the long journey home. This will help you to determine where you can stop should anything unexpected arise like a prematurely grumbly tummy or a nasty storm. He had to drive through a nasty hurricane to get there, which was interesting, but that's not the best part of the story. The weather was nasty, very, very stormy and a lot of people were seasick. Sunday morning arrived just as the weatherman predicted - nasty with cold, clouds, rain, and snow. A few months ago, we had a nasty hail storm in Central Iowa. The once blue sky was already turning angry black, threatening all those below it with a very nasty rain. Most of what she could see was that there was a nasty storm picking up. This allows easy access at night or in nasty weather. The weather had turned much colder with a nasty North Easterly wind chilling all the lakes. Normal hail grows up as a drop of rain and is chosen to be frozen and sent to Earth as an envoy of impending nasty winter weather. Despite an occasional nasty storm, Florida still is as close to paradise as you can get year-round. This is very moderate by comparison, but still very nasty weather. An uncomfortable silence hung over them like a nasty fog as she waited for a gasp of shock and a whole barrage of scolding to fall onto her sister, but none came. It also was a week that began with nasty weather. If the weather however is cold and nasty, then they know they have to prepare to bite their tongue this coming year. This monster crashed our plane in that nasty storm and got us all lost! After what seemed like an eternity of thick fog and really nasty weather, the skies finally cleared up yesterday. Synonyms unpleasant, disagreeable, foul, filthy, inclement wet, rainy, stormy, cold, foggy, blustery, squally 1.2 Repugnant to the mind. 烦人的，讨厌的；下流的，龌龊的 her stories are very nasty, full of murder and violence 她的故事充斥了谋杀和暴力，让人厌恶。 Example sentencesExamples I want to think of something to insult you at the moment, but nothing comes to mind that's nasty enough not to compliment you. Sorry, but my mind has been overflowing with nice things and nasty things in equal measure. Joe tried to look as his normal-self again; but his mind kept exploding with nasty thoughts towards the girl, Laura. The nasty aspect of contemporary workplace bullying is that it is directed towards senior employees. Am in a really nasty horrible, scream and shouting kind of mood now. Perhaps yesterday afternoon I slipped into a parallel world where everyone was really nasty, full of hate and not afraid of showing it? ‘Sectarianism is a community disease - a nasty attitude of the mind like racism,’ he says. But the man who led the revolt is a thoroughly nasty piece of work. So is this the nasty party shedding its repulsive past? Both games are full of nasty, sadistic violence, leavened just enough by irony and black humor to be tolerable. You have to be brutal and horrible, almost nasty. By this I mean that you are doubting your reasoning to attain goals, such as to stop smoking, and filling it full of nasty outcomes, due to this lack of self belief in your intent. It is an unspeakable act of violence carried out by unspeakably nasty vicious bloodthirsty thugs. Never in all her life had she seen something so disgusting so nasty happen. Because once people meet me, they can see that I'm not a one-eyed monster, a horrible evil nasty guy. Like a cartoonist exaggerates a big nose for effect, we use the full power of nasty words as explosives to get our point across. He was a miserable little narrow minded bigot with a nasty temper. But, hold on, I hear you say, they really are repugnant, nasty, racist scum. The bad guys coming out full of nasty tricks, the good guys seeing their world crumble around them as everything that can go wrong does. If I thought I had seen dirty political tricks as nasty and vile as they could get, I was wrong. Synonyms hateful, detestable, abhorrent, repulsive, odious, repugnant, repellent, disgusting, revolting, sickening, nauseating, abominable, despicable, contemptible, reprehensible, execrable, damnable 2Behaving in an unpleasant or spiteful way. （人，动物）使人厌恶的；恶意的 Harry was a nasty, foul-mouthed old devil 哈里是个令人厌恶、满嘴脏话的老魔鬼。 Example sentencesExamples Most of them just need jobs, and these jobs are extremely easy to get because of the undesirable, and downright horribly nasty and cruel, nature of the work. It is a cause of concern and was a very vicious and nasty attack and we are treating it as a racially motivated incident. To face a life of ridicule after having your story published in the paper, and on the internet, linked to by as many cruel and nasty people as possible. All this festive cheer is starting to become a bit boring, so why not join us on a needless, hurtful, and downright nasty hate campaign against someone we've never met? Still, at least I had a new toy to take my mind off all the nasty comments I was getting. Not just a grudge, but a hateful, vindictive, nasty bitterness that I didn't even know existed until this person's name was brought up. He admits that he ‘may be overzealous at times,’ maybe even nasty or rude. If you are nasty, rude or don't follow the rules you can also get flamed. In the past I would have cringed at calling someone something so inhuman, but I hadn't met anyone as nasty and rude as Christine before, so the name was justified. Being nasty, rude, shrewish and creepy was very fun to do - I simply pretended to be in a bad mood each time the camera rolled. The attendant could have informed me that, sorry, store policy didn't allow men in the dressing rooms, without the rude look or the nasty comments. That just proves something else, he's selfish - finding humour in someone else's misfortune, is a cruel and nasty thing to do. His imperialists are often nasty folk who behaved horribly towards the natives under their yoke. I don't understand why someone would do that, unless they are nasty and hurtful. Sometimes, the most rational interpretation of someone's behaviour is that they are nasty, sadistic or cruel. He's not nasty, cruel or bent on taking over the world. You are foul, surly, nasty, unhelpful, unpleasant and clearly you have a lot of issues. Girls engage in catty behavior and nasty comments, judging each other on appearance and material possessions. A voice that was nasty and spiteful, leaping at any chance to cause her pain. But if you've been nasty, bad, rude… people will remember that side of you. Synonyms unkind, unpleasant, unfriendly, disagreeable, inconsiderate, uncharitable, rude, churlish, spiteful, malicious, mean, mean-spirited, ill-tempered, ill-natured, ill-humoured, bad-tempered, hostile, vicious, malevolent, evil-minded, surly, obnoxious, poisonous, venomous, vindictive, malign, malignant, cantankerous, hateful, hurtful, cruel, wounding, abusive informal bitchy, catty vulgar slang shitty 2.1 Annoying or unwelcome. 恼人的；不受欢迎的 life has a nasty habit of repeating itself 生活总是讨厌地重复。 Example sentencesExamples Unfortunately, plenty of investors develop the nasty habit of boasting of their gains instead of contemplating possible overvaluation concerns. But at the very least we must do our own house cleaning, change our downright nasty habits of further polluting an already over-polluted environment. Opinion polls have a nasty habit of entrenching prejudices. 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. Maybe there's a patch on the market to help politicians quit this nasty habit. Also, midges have a nasty habit of crawling up trouser legs and even into lace-holes on hiking boots, so they will get you one way or another. But events have this nasty habit of coming along and disturbing all your best-laid plans, don't they? Unfortunately, this type of viewing can become a nasty habit that, in the end, sabotages any meaningful engagement with sports. In the nursery school language of heroes and villains, there is no word for someone capable of good and bad, so the disappointment has a nasty habit of being backdated. 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. Over time, politicians develop various nasty habits, and one of them is the use of phrases that do not actually mean what they say. Just too many nasty trick questions and annoying video clips of past statements, but that's why you get the big money. In recent years, birthdays have had a nasty habit of getting me thinking too much, recalling memories I'd rather not recall and conducting one too many internal dialogues. 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. For one thing, the author has a nasty habit of separating sentences with a comma, when a semi-colon would be far more appropriate. The trouble with pulling the covers over your head and hiding from reality is that reality has a nasty habit of sticking around. Some e-tailers have a nasty habit of taking your money as soon as you place an order, then not dispatching the goods for several months. Mail, keys, change, Peter's camera equipment, books, plastic bags, and all manner of other debris have a nasty habit of collecting on that coffee table. Synonyms annoying, irritating, infuriating, unwelcome, disagreeable, unpleasant, unfortunate, maddening, exasperating, irksome, vexing, vexatious informal aggravating, pesky 3Damaging or harmful. a nasty, vicious-looking hatchet 一把看上去杀气腾腾、令人寒战的短柄小斧。 Example sentencesExamples If left unchecked, free radicals cause nasty damage to the body's cell membranes and DNA. Your luscious locks can also suffer from heat damage and nasty rays from the sun so they need some protection too. It takes about five minutes to get to the surface without bursting your lungs or doing some other nasty damage to your body. They could still do some quite nasty damage if people inadvertently handled them or were exposed to them. Synonyms poisonous, toxic, deadly, virulent nounPlural nasties ˈnɑːstiˈnæsti informal 1An unpleasant or harmful person or thing. 〈非正式〉令人不快的人（或物）；有害的人（或物） a water conditioner to neutralize chlorine and other nasties 用以中和氯和其他有害物质的水质调节剂。 Example sentencesExamples This place is run by a collection of idiots and nasties, who force the boys to dig holes in the sweltering sun. It works so well because many of these microscopic nasties are, rather like horror movie vampires, extremely sensitive to light. He lives there with Cynthia, paranoid that the nasties out to get him in the first film will return. A laconic, crimson-coloured anti-hero, he is a half-human, half-demon agent in a government agency that fights paranormal nasties. Because just as in the 19th century the water contained little nasties so today does the internet. Neill turns on the boy, and in low, menacing tones, he demonstrates to the child how a prehistoric nasty would mangle and devour him. Some of those little nasties found innocent of producing havoc in the immune system were: low ferritin concentrations and elevated uric acid and phosphokinase and cortisol levels. The problem with these nasties is that they lack motivation: it's impossible to tell whether they act out of naïvety, malice or both. The land tax sting is going to be quite a political nasty. The board uses through-hole construction rather than surface-mount, and is housed in a stainless-steel chassis, providing maximum shielding from external nasties. The bad guys again break one of the cardinal rules for being an evil nasty: When you have the chance to kill your nemesis, do it! The bathroom is a common place to find bacteria and other nasties lurking. Together, they are close to finding a way to vaporise the nasties once and for all. Firstly, both human and digital nasties constantly evolve, as do the malicious tactics of intruders. One wonders what other accounting nasties lurk beneath the surface in regard to other telecoms companies. In Australia, medical specialists and toxicologists know about the cancer links, but the research hasn't been done in this country to separate diesel exhaust from other nasties in the environment. Yet despite the presence of molds, bacteria, and other nasties, most archaeological sites, including tombs, have proven safe for science and tourism alike. He plays a 21 st-century courier, who can download computer information directly into his brain, on the run from a variety of nasties intent on pulling his plug. Computer users need to protect their PCs from all the nasties spreading on the internet. 1.1 A horror video or film. 恐怖录像（或影片）。参见VIDEO NASTY See also video nasty Example sentencesExamples I want to see horror hark back to the old days of video nasties. Blockbusters won't be stocking the new nasties. Phrases a nasty one informal An awkward question or task. 〈非正式〉棘手的问题（或任务） Example sentencesExamples This particular module was a nasty one: it modified the behavior of certain system calls to hide itself from the lsmod command and to hide the presence of scanners, crackers, sniffer logs and other such files. I knew his expressions too well, and he would defiantly give me a nasty one this time. ‘That was a nasty one,’ Eric commented jovially, melting out of the trees in his brown uniform. a nasty piece (or bit) of work informal An unpleasant or untrustworthy person. 〈非正式〉令人不快的人（或物）；有害的人（或物） if you ask me he's a nasty piece of work Example sentencesExamples He was a nasty piece of work and generally was avoided by the other prisoners who knew his reputation. Your behaviour makes it clear that you are a nasty piece of work who abuses those who love you in order to get what you want. Don't rely on Lady Fortune: I know her well, and she can be a nasty piece of work at times! She is a nasty piece of work and people used to give her a very wide berth. He is a nasty piece of work, and has to go, but there must be other ways to sort this out. A womaniser, unfaithful, just a nasty piece of work. He's widely known to be a nasty piece of work and I hope he gets long suspension. Altogether a nasty piece of work, but a delight to get into the head of and write. Until last week he was out on parole, having served more than half of a seven-year sentence for being a nasty piece of work. Convention says that the Florentine civil servant, power-broker and writer, Niccolo Machiavelli, was a nasty piece of work. Synonyms wretch Derivatives nastily adverb ˈnɑːstɪli What I mean here is that when the Romans had a mutiny, obviously you can't kill everyone in a mutinous army as you'd have no army, so they killed some of them really nastily, and made the others watch. Example sentencesExamples It will fight nastily, brutally and with no compunction. Equally, why are stay-at-home mums so nastily eager to imagine that the children of their working sisters are damaged, unloved, neurotic, tormented? This sounds like a nastily mixed metaphor, but just go with it. She was very strange, and I don't mean that nastily. Origin Late Middle English: of unknown origin. The origins of nasty, which was first recorded in the Middle Ages, are uncertain, although it is probably related to Dutch and Swedish words with similar meaning. It originally meant ‘filthy, offensively dirty’, but its force has been gradually toned down, although in America it remains a more strongly negative term than it is in Britain. The phrase something nasty in the woodshed comes from the comic novel Cold Comfort Farm (1932) by Stella Gibbons: Aunt Ada Doom's peculiarities are explained by the fact that when she was small she had seen something nasty in the woodshed, but we are never told what. Nasty piece of work or nasty bit of work, ‘an unpleasant person’, is a slang term first found in a 1923 book by the author ‘Bartimeus’ (the pseudonym for Lewis Anselm da Costa Ricci). ‘Bartimeus’ wrote books on a nautical theme, such as Naval Occasions and Seaways, and it is possible that the expression originated as naval slang. In informal English nasty can also be a noun, meaning ‘a nasty person’ or ‘an unpleasant or harmful thing’. Today it is most often found in connection with gratuitously violent or pornographic films or video nasties, a use first recorded in the early 1980s. adj.1 phr. Definition of nasty in US English: nasty adjectiveˈnæstiˈnastē 1Highly unpleasant, especially to the senses; physically nauseating. 令人作呕的；恶心的 plastic bags burn with a nasty, acrid smell 塑料袋燃烧时散发出令人恶心的辛辣味道。 Example sentencesExamples This might come as a shock to some people, but chickens are the most stinky, repulsive and nasty creatures to walk the earth. This can come as a very nasty shock to customers. It's a huge skull full of nasty things like rats and guts and caffeine and lifeless craniums and free stuff from the sponsors. You will be laughing, mind you, but some of the gore is fairly nasty. He stalked out of the room before she said anything else nasty to him. As we all know, Garry was in for a rather nasty surprise. "You probably have a pretty nasty hangover, " I said. 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. From there we went to a nasty bar full of hungry looking western men and western girls dressed like hookers who made an effort to look especially cheap and trashy. Father, why do these words sound so nasty? Now if we don't get a nasty shock from a popped housing bubble, we'll be in very good shape. Then things get really nasty: the new robots are released. Publishers, apparently, found it a nasty shock to be ‘up against someone whose skill in driving a bargain equalled if not excelled their own’. Just as I started to feel a bit, uh, constrained (I don't like enclosed spaces, let alone enclosed spaces full of nasty gas) we were let out into the fresh air. Monday's attack is the latest in a number of nasty incidents that have shocked locals in the town in recent weeks. After a shower last night and a shower this morning, I can still smell the nasty stench of the awful artificial concoction. Many firms are trying to set up such systems so that they avoid nasty shocks. Dinner was disgustingly gross and nasty; it was some custom British food that they all loved but non-British hated. Still, there are enough dangers on every side, especially from electrically operated gadgets that can give a nasty shock if handled the wrong way. Had a nasty shock mid-afternoon while trawling the net. Through careful planning people can avoid inheritance tax, which can come as a nasty shock at what is bound to be an upsetting time. Plans to build a new sewage plant to help free the air of nasty pongs should be given full support, a councillor said today. Synonyms unpleasant, disagreeable, disgusting, distasteful, awful, dreadful, horrible, terrible, vile, foul, abominable, frightful, loathsome, revolting, repulsive, odious, sickening, nauseating, nauseous, repellent, repugnant, horrendous, hideous, appalling, atrocious, offensive, objectionable, obnoxious, unpalatable, unsavoury, unappetizing, off-putting, uninviting, dirty, filthy, squalid serious, dangerous, bad, awful, dreadful, terrible, frightful, critical, severe, grave, alarming, worrying, concerning 1.1 (of the weather) unpleasantly cold or wet. （天气）湿冷的；极恶劣的 a cold, nasty day Example sentencesExamples The weather had turned much colder with a nasty North Easterly wind chilling all the lakes. An uncomfortable silence hung over them like a nasty fog as she waited for a gasp of shock and a whole barrage of scolding to fall onto her sister, but none came. Hey, who couldn't love a sport that makes it fun to be outdoors in nasty weather? Despite an occasional nasty storm, Florida still is as close to paradise as you can get year-round. Despite the nasty weather, she had picked this day to walk into town and get something to eat before she made the long journey home. The weather was nasty, very, very stormy and a lot of people were seasick. It also was a week that began with nasty weather. Having just got back from the shops near where I work, I am quite wet, having been caught in a bit of a nasty downpour. Most of what she could see was that there was a nasty storm picking up. The once blue sky was already turning angry black, threatening all those below it with a very nasty rain. After what seemed like an eternity of thick fog and really nasty weather, the skies finally cleared up yesterday. He had to drive through a nasty hurricane to get there, which was interesting, but that's not the best part of the story. Sunday morning arrived just as the weatherman predicted - nasty with cold, clouds, rain, and snow. If the weather however is cold and nasty, then they know they have to prepare to bite their tongue this coming year. This will help you to determine where you can stop should anything unexpected arise like a prematurely grumbly tummy or a nasty storm. This is very moderate by comparison, but still very nasty weather. A few months ago, we had a nasty hail storm in Central Iowa. This allows easy access at night or in nasty weather. This monster crashed our plane in that nasty storm and got us all lost! Normal hail grows up as a drop of rain and is chosen to be frozen and sent to Earth as an envoy of impending nasty winter weather. Synonyms unpleasant, disagreeable, foul, filthy, inclement 1.2 Repugnant to the mind; morally bad. 烦人的，讨厌的；下流的，龌龊的 her stories are very nasty, full of murder and violence 她的故事充斥了谋杀和暴力，让人厌恶。 Example sentencesExamples I want to think of something to insult you at the moment, but nothing comes to mind that's nasty enough not to compliment you. But, hold on, I hear you say, they really are repugnant, nasty, racist scum. Like a cartoonist exaggerates a big nose for effect, we use the full power of nasty words as explosives to get our point across. You have to be brutal and horrible, almost nasty. He was a miserable little narrow minded bigot with a nasty temper. Because once people meet me, they can see that I'm not a one-eyed monster, a horrible evil nasty guy. Never in all her life had she seen something so disgusting so nasty happen. By this I mean that you are doubting your reasoning to attain goals, such as to stop smoking, and filling it full of nasty outcomes, due to this lack of self belief in your intent. The nasty aspect of contemporary workplace bullying is that it is directed towards senior employees. But the man who led the revolt is a thoroughly nasty piece of work. Joe tried to look as his normal-self again; but his mind kept exploding with nasty thoughts towards the girl, Laura. The bad guys coming out full of nasty tricks, the good guys seeing their world crumble around them as everything that can go wrong does. ‘Sectarianism is a community disease - a nasty attitude of the mind like racism,’ he says. Both games are full of nasty, sadistic violence, leavened just enough by irony and black humor to be tolerable. Perhaps yesterday afternoon I slipped into a parallel world where everyone was really nasty, full of hate and not afraid of showing it? So is this the nasty party shedding its repulsive past? It is an unspeakable act of violence carried out by unspeakably nasty vicious bloodthirsty thugs. If I thought I had seen dirty political tricks as nasty and vile as they could get, I was wrong. Am in a really nasty horrible, scream and shouting kind of mood now. Sorry, but my mind has been overflowing with nice things and nasty things in equal measure. Synonyms hateful, detestable, abhorrent, repulsive, odious, repugnant, repellent, disgusting, revolting, sickening, nauseating, abominable, despicable, contemptible, reprehensible, execrable, damnable 2(of a person or animal) behaving in an unpleasant or spiteful way. （人，动物）使人厌恶的；恶意的 Harry was a nasty, foul-mouthed old devil 哈里是个令人厌恶、满嘴脏话的老魔鬼。 when she confronted him, he turned nasty 她一与他对抗，他就变得恶毒起来。 Example sentencesExamples It is a cause of concern and was a very vicious and nasty attack and we are treating it as a racially motivated incident. To face a life of ridicule after having your story published in the paper, and on the internet, linked to by as many cruel and nasty people as possible. Sometimes, the most rational interpretation of someone's behaviour is that they are nasty, sadistic or cruel. I don't understand why someone would do that, unless they are nasty and hurtful. Girls engage in catty behavior and nasty comments, judging each other on appearance and material possessions. That just proves something else, he's selfish - finding humour in someone else's misfortune, is a cruel and nasty thing to do. Most of them just need jobs, and these jobs are extremely easy to get because of the undesirable, and downright horribly nasty and cruel, nature of the work. But if you've been nasty, bad, rude… people will remember that side of you. The attendant could have informed me that, sorry, store policy didn't allow men in the dressing rooms, without the rude look or the nasty comments. In the past I would have cringed at calling someone something so inhuman, but I hadn't met anyone as nasty and rude as Christine before, so the name was justified. Not just a grudge, but a hateful, vindictive, nasty bitterness that I didn't even know existed until this person's name was brought up. If you are nasty, rude or don't follow the rules you can also get flamed. Being nasty, rude, shrewish and creepy was very fun to do - I simply pretended to be in a bad mood each time the camera rolled. You are foul, surly, nasty, unhelpful, unpleasant and clearly you have a lot of issues. Still, at least I had a new toy to take my mind off all the nasty comments I was getting. His imperialists are often nasty folk who behaved horribly towards the natives under their yoke. He admits that he ‘may be overzealous at times,’ maybe even nasty or rude. A voice that was nasty and spiteful, leaping at any chance to cause her pain. He's not nasty, cruel or bent on taking over the world. All this festive cheer is starting to become a bit boring, so why not join us on a needless, hurtful, and downright nasty hate campaign against someone we've never met? Synonyms unkind, unpleasant, unfriendly, disagreeable, inconsiderate, uncharitable, rude, churlish, spiteful, malicious, mean, mean-spirited, ill-tempered, ill-natured, ill-humoured, bad-tempered, hostile, vicious, malevolent, evil-minded, surly, obnoxious, poisonous, venomous, vindictive, malign, malignant, cantankerous, hateful, hurtful, cruel, wounding, abusive 2.1 Annoying or unwelcome. 恼人的；不受欢迎的 life has a nasty habit of repeating itself 生活总是讨厌地重复。 Example sentencesExamples For one thing, the author has a nasty habit of separating sentences with a comma, when a semi-colon would be far more appropriate. Over time, politicians develop various nasty habits, and one of them is the use of phrases that do not actually mean what they say. Unfortunately, this type of viewing can become a nasty habit that, in the end, sabotages any meaningful engagement with sports. In the nursery school language of heroes and villains, there is no word for someone capable of good and bad, so the disappointment has a nasty habit of being backdated. 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. 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. Opinion polls have a nasty habit of entrenching prejudices. The trouble with pulling the covers over your head and hiding from reality is that reality has a nasty habit of sticking around. But events have this nasty habit of coming along and disturbing all your best-laid plans, don't they? Mail, keys, change, Peter's camera equipment, books, plastic bags, and all manner of other debris have a nasty habit of collecting on that coffee table. Also, midges have a nasty habit of crawling up trouser legs and even into lace-holes on hiking boots, so they will get you one way or another. But at the very least we must do our own house cleaning, change our downright nasty habits of further polluting an already over-polluted environment. Some e-tailers have a nasty habit of taking your money as soon as you place an order, then not dispatching the goods for several months. 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. In recent years, birthdays have had a nasty habit of getting me thinking too much, recalling memories I'd rather not recall and conducting one too many internal dialogues. Unfortunately, plenty of investors develop the nasty habit of boasting of their gains instead of contemplating possible overvaluation concerns. Just too many nasty trick questions and annoying video clips of past statements, but that's why you get the big money. Maybe there's a patch on the market to help politicians quit this nasty habit. Synonyms annoying, irritating, infuriating, unwelcome, disagreeable, unpleasant, unfortunate, maddening, exasperating, irksome, vexing, vexatious 3Physically or mentally damaging or harmful. （对身体或精神）有损伤（或有害）的；能伤身的；令人不快的 a nasty, vicious-looking hatchet 一把看上去杀气腾腾、令人寒战的短柄小斧。 Example sentencesExamples If left unchecked, free radicals cause nasty damage to the body's cell membranes and DNA. Your luscious locks can also suffer from heat damage and nasty rays from the sun so they need some protection too. It takes about five minutes to get to the surface without bursting your lungs or doing some other nasty damage to your body. They could still do some quite nasty damage if people inadvertently handled them or were exposed to them. Synonyms poisonous, toxic, deadly, virulent nounˈnæstiˈnastē often nastiesinformal 1An unpleasant or harmful person or thing. 〈非正式〉令人不快的人（或物）；有害的人（或物） bacteria and other nasties Example sentencesExamples The bathroom is a common place to find bacteria and other nasties lurking. It works so well because many of these microscopic nasties are, rather like horror movie vampires, extremely sensitive to light. Together, they are close to finding a way to vaporise the nasties once and for all. Some of those little nasties found innocent of producing havoc in the immune system were: low ferritin concentrations and elevated uric acid and phosphokinase and cortisol levels. The bad guys again break one of the cardinal rules for being an evil nasty: When you have the chance to kill your nemesis, do it! Yet despite the presence of molds, bacteria, and other nasties, most archaeological sites, including tombs, have proven safe for science and tourism alike. Computer users need to protect their PCs from all the nasties spreading on the internet. The board uses through-hole construction rather than surface-mount, and is housed in a stainless-steel chassis, providing maximum shielding from external nasties. Because just as in the 19th century the water contained little nasties so today does the internet. One wonders what other accounting nasties lurk beneath the surface in regard to other telecoms companies. The problem with these nasties is that they lack motivation: it's impossible to tell whether they act out of naïvety, malice or both. The land tax sting is going to be quite a political nasty. Firstly, both human and digital nasties constantly evolve, as do the malicious tactics of intruders. A laconic, crimson-coloured anti-hero, he is a half-human, half-demon agent in a government agency that fights paranormal nasties. He lives there with Cynthia, paranoid that the nasties out to get him in the first film will return. He plays a 21 st-century courier, who can download computer information directly into his brain, on the run from a variety of nasties intent on pulling his plug. In Australia, medical specialists and toxicologists know about the cancer links, but the research hasn't been done in this country to separate diesel exhaust from other nasties in the environment. This place is run by a collection of idiots and nasties, who force the boys to dig holes in the sweltering sun. Neill turns on the boy, and in low, menacing tones, he demonstrates to the child how a prehistoric nasty would mangle and devour him. 1.1 A horror video or movie. 恐怖录像（或影片）。参见VIDEO NASTY Example sentencesExamples I want to see horror hark back to the old days of video nasties. Blockbusters won't be stocking the new nasties. Origin Late Middle English: of unknown origin.
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