What's the difference between nasty and rusty?

Nasty


Definition:

  • (superl.) Offensively filthy; very dirty, foul, or defiled; disgusting; nauseous.
  • (superl.) Hence, loosely: Offensive; disagreeable; unpropitious; wet; drizzling; as, a nasty rain, day, sky.
  • (superl.) Characterized by obcenity; indecent; indelicate; gross; filthy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) How does it stack up against the competition – and are there any nasties in the small print?
  • (2) Admirably, Clinton kept her cool throughout, particularly Trump when spoke over her to call her “such a nasty woman”.
  • (3) He wanted to stay on longer than the traditional retirement age but became involved in a nasty spat with the then-chairman, Peter Sutherland.
  • (4) It is the latest attack on the government from the Hungarian economist, whose previous criticism of David Cameron's "nasty" looking restrictions on benefits for foreigners led the angry prime minister to lodge a formal complaint.
  • (5) Protesters waved banners with slogans such as “Special relationship, just say no” and “Nasty women unite”.
  • (6) The examples I have quoted are the tip of a very large and very nasty iceberg.
  • (7) In short, it is alleged that under his rule Sri Lanka is becoming a nasty, authoritarian quasi-rogue banana republic.
  • (8) Patterson agrees that it’s all much more controlled now, but she also wonders whether at times the media can be too negative, doomy, and sometimes downright nasty.
  • (9) And I’m sorry, that will come before any internal party-political issue and I think I should be able to adopt that position without being attacked, without being subject to a nasty troll-form of politics.” On Tuesday the prime minister, David Cameron, promised to publish a comprehensive strategy on Syria in the form of a written response to a report by the foreign affairs select committee, which concluded that the government had failed to make the case for extending airstrikes.
  • (10) Al-Azhar, the Sunni Muslim world’s leading centre of Islamic learning, called on Muslims to “ignore the nasty frivolity” of the latest edition.
  • (11) He was followed by Theresa May, who 13 years ago had warned that many voters thought the Conservatives were the “nasty party”, but who now pledged to clamp down on the rights of asylum seekers, and renewed her commitment to cut net migration to below 100,000 in terms so harsh that she was widely condemned even by her allies.
  • (12) I think it probably gave me a sense of self and self-protection that has been very useful, and I possibly have had less nasty moments than a lot of other women.
  • (13) Dr Rosemary Gillespie was the object of a “nasty, vindictive and sustained campaign of bullying” from her second day in the job at the UK’s biggest HIV charity, the tribunal heard.
  • (14) It had a “flat, nasty” ring to it, she says, which she has since “analysed like a Rubik’s cube; I have turned it every which way.
  • (15) Updated at 2.10pm BST 1.47pm BST Over to America, where the latest productivity figures confirm that the US economy took a nasty jolt over the winter, when bad weather gripped the country.
  • (16) It doesn't have to be bloody, it doesn't have to be nasty, but it does have to be fought."
  • (17) That was the one surprise in the budget – apart from the fine print of the nasties.
  • (18) Because the nastiness on our doorstep has piled too high for too long, and I just want to get out of the house.
  • (19) Southampton 3-0 Vitesse | Europa League third qualifying round match report Read more Even more damagingly for West Ham, they lost Enner Valencia to a potentially nasty knee injury in the first half after he caught his leg in the turf.
  • (20) They orginally had lofty ambitions of talking about the economy but since they have lost that argument so catastrophically, they have reached for the Ukip playbook to create fictitious stories to scare people about immigrants and release video nasties about Turkish people”.

Rusty


Definition:

  • (superl.) Covered or affected with rust; as, a rusty knife or sword; rusty wheat.
  • (superl.) Impaired by inaction, disuse, or neglect.
  • (superl.) Discolored and rancid; reasty; as, rusty bacon.
  • (superl.) Surly; morose; crusty; sullen.
  • (superl.) Rust-colored; dark.
  • (superl.) Discolored; stained; not cleanly kept; filthy.
  • (superl.) Resembling, or covered with a substance resembling, rust; affected with rust; rubiginous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Its diplomatic machinery is a little bit rusty," said Zhu Feng, of Peking University's centre for international and strategic studies.
  • (2) Soon my pillowcases bore rusty coins of nasal drippage.
  • (3) Protected by a rusty padlocked gate, Macrinus's tomb was targeted by thieves after it was first excavated in 2008.
  • (4) A gentle drizzle beats an insistent rhythm on the rusty, corrugated iron classroom roof at Katwe primary school in a suburb of Kampala, Uganda’s capital.
  • (5) But to enjoy it like a local, give the tourist-tat main road a miss and dive into the snarl of side streets, where wheeler-dealers hawk everything from rusty doorknobs to 17th-century art.
  • (6) With the breakdown of trapped hemoglobin, iron-containing hemosiderin is stored in synovial tissue producing rusty discoloration and proliferative reaction.
  • (7) 3.26am BST 62 mins The hour coming up is not lost on our Twitter followers Rusty (@bussruckley) But seriously, can Jurgen make a sub before its too late?
  • (8) The man with the rusty teeth struggles over the word on the whiteboard, one of a handful the teacher has written for the class.
  • (9) Rusty (@bussruckley) @KidWeil these vuvuzelas are death.
  • (10) Regardless, the England manager is keen to include Wilshere in the squad in the belief he boasts the required pedigree to succeed, however rusty he is after his lay-off.
  • (11) Diagnosis of the first case was made from fragments of an endometrial polyp obtained after curettage done because of a rusty vaginal discharge and lower abdominal pain.
  • (12) As the interval arrived the home rear-defence had indeed been more composed, though Kompany’s rustiness caused two errors.
  • (13) He said allegations by a senior government official that the tools were rusty were untrue and that he wore gloves and a gown.
  • (14) When a lost boy meets a rusty child who teaches him to chomp iron bars, or a disgruntled crowd is distracted by beancurd fritters, Mo insists that everything lags behind the belly.
  • (15) Didier Drogba was making the first start of his second coming in these parts, but was understandably rusty and, long before the end, rather wheezing.
  • (16) A faint dog-collar effect is lent by that all-white chin, the rest of his rusty beard creeping over his cheeks like a delightful kind of lichen.
  • (17) The moors, covered with bracken turning a rusty brown, stretched as far as the eye could see.
  • (18) This will be a classic "are they rusty or rested" game, as Miami return from vacation to face a Nets team that just finished a grueling seven-game series against the Toronto Raptors on Sunday, winning 104-103 only after Pierce blocked Kyle Lowry's attempted game-winner.
  • (19) Since Warp's minimal beginnings, they've built a legacy that has taken in a florally abundant range of styles, from the haunted psychedelia of Broadcast to Bibio, Boards Of Canada, Black Dog Productions and Rustie .
  • (20) Mesut Özil, Santi Cazorla and Alexis Sánchez, restored after his exertions at the Copa América, all revelled where they had been so rusty at the Emirates Stadium the previous week as Arsenal whipped up the kind of upbeat tempo they had enjoyed in the spring, when, albeit in a game of catch-up, they had been the Premier League’s resurgent force.