How to use nastiness in a sentence
11 example sentences · noun
Nastiness means lack of cleanliness. Example: “Among current novelists, Martin Amis lacks intellectual force but is well supplied with nastiness, which occasionally resembles humor.”
Examples of nastiness by meaning
nounIndecency; corruption; unkindness, meanness, spite, harshness, cruelty.
- Among current novelists, Martin Amis lacks intellectual force but is well supplied with nastiness, which occasionally resembles humor.1995 September 4, John Skow, “Snobs and Wetbacks”, in Time
- Despite efforts to curb hate speech, eradicate bullying and extend tolerance, a culture of nastiness has metastasized in which meanness is routinely rewarded, and common decency and civility are brushed aside.2017 February 18, Teddy Wayne, “The Culture of Nastiness”, in New York Times
nounUnpleasantness, disagreeableness (to the senses).
- During the day, the surrounding blocks are no better, full of cheesy bars, tacky shops and brash, neon nastiness.2011 June 5, Lucinda Baring, “Florida: driving along the Overseas Highway to Key West”, in The Daily Telegraph
More sentences with nastiness
- The nastiness is a crime scene right in front of us.1998 September 26, Lewis W. Diuguid, “Changing channels on scandal”, in The Kansas City Star. From the entry irritainment
- The hot nastiness that prevails over everything and everyone.2011, Simon Ings, Dead Water. From the entry amutter
- It will also help anti-black, anti-brown, anti-yellow and general anti-foreign nastiness, of which we have good and plenty already.1995 June 20, A. M. Rosenthal, “On My Mind; Arianna, Go Home!”, in The New York Times. From the entry anti-brown
- Then he must needs sit bare-arsed on his jordan, hand scooping sweat from his brow, and void much black nastiness.1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford. From the entry torchecul
- I am tired of the Guernicas and the Minotaurs, the Ronaultesque misereres, the Sutherlandesque thorninesses and the Baconian nastinesses.1958, Saltire Review of Arts, Letters and Life, volumes 5-6, page 28. From the entry thorninesses
- And now that it is so tempersome and cold you are always going out into the nastiness and getting wet or frozen every day.1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC. From the entry tempersome
- Perhaps the sheer nastiness of TERFs comes from the fact that they don’t just know they’ve lost; they know they were on the wrong side from the beginning.2014, Roz Kaveney, "Woman Enough, The Advocate, 16 July 2014. From the entry terf
- Did you know that probing the seamy underbelly of US lexicography reveals ideological strife and controversy and intrigue and nastiness and fervor on a near-Lewinskian scale?2012, David Foster Wallace, Consider The Lobster: Essays and Arguments, page xxvi. From the entry Lewinskian
Meaning of nastiness
- noun Lack of cleanliness.
- noun Dirt, filth.
- noun Indecency; corruption; unkindness, meanness, spite, harshness, cruelty.
Questions about nastiness in a sentence
- How do you use nastiness in a sentence?
- Nastiness is used as a noun. For example: “Among current novelists, Martin Amis lacks intellectual force but is well supplied with nastiness, which occasionally resembles humor.”
- What is a short sentence with nastiness?
- “The hot nastiness that prevails over everything and everyone.”
- What does nastiness mean?
- Nastiness means lack of cleanliness.
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