(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”.
Surly
Definition:
(a.) Arrogant; haughty.
(a.) Gloomily morose; ill-natured, abrupt, and rude; severe; sour; crabbed; rough; sullen; gloomy; as, a surly groom; a surly dog; surly language; a surly look.
(a.) Rough; dark; tempestuous.
Example Sentences:
(1) The mood is fantastic: upbeat, from a crowd of older locals reliving their youth to cool young thangs attracted by Margate’s burgeoning reputation as Dalston-sur-Mer; fiftysomething men in braces and Harringtons, candy-floss-chomping teens… People are picnicking on the fake lawn beside the hair and beauty caravan, children gyrating newly bought hula-hoops to the strains of I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts.
(2) In tangentially fractured specimens, the cleavage plane jumps back and forth from the plasma membrane to a disk-bilayer, thereby giving rise to the known phenomenon of EF-ridges (on the extracellular fracture face) and PF-grooves (in the plasmatic fracture face) which both represent the level of the plasma membrane sur- or subjacent to the aisles between disks.
(3) One of the organisers told local newspaper El Sur that they wanted to show thanks to residents of the city for their support.
(4) Hb La Roche-sur-Yon [beta 81 (EF5) Leu----His] is an unstable hemoglobin variant displaying a moderately increased oxygen affinity.
(5) The Groupe de Recherche sur les Mélanomes Malins of the Centre hospitalier Lariboisière-Saint Louis has undertaken a randomized study of some therapeutic protocoles.
(6) Open 5 April- 30 September, camping from €18.20 a night for two, cabins from €51 a night for five Camping Le Pin Sec, Naujac-sur-Mer, near Bordeaux Amid pine forests and dunes just 50 metres from the sea, is a pop-up camp where surfers can stay in tipis with beds, carpets and electricity.
(7) Asked by judges for an explanation, the black-robed prosecutor Siddiq al-Sur said: "He was allowed visits, he was allowed to see his daughter, his cousins.
(8) The expression of Cat-301 immunoreactivity on Y cells in the cat LGN is sharply reduced by early visual deprivation (Sur et al., 1988).
(9) There’s no use being surly about the battle, we lost it but the war hasn’t begun.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest People stand next to flooded railway tracks in Souppes-sur-Loing, south-east of Paris.
(11) These patients had been hospitalized in the Service of Acute Respiratory Diseases in Sur Teaching Children's Hospital in Santiago de Cuba during the months of March-April, 1987.
(12) This report examines the results of the Campaign of Eradication of the Mosquito Aedes aegypti in the Consolación del Sur district in Pinar del Rio, in the period ranging from August 1, 1981, to December 28, 1984, which included the intensive stage and the first 18 cycles of the consolidation stage.
(13) The man, who has not been identified, is accused of the cold-blooded murder of 25 people and with being an accomplice in the murder of hundreds of other civilians at the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in 1944.
(14) (Cestoda: Hymenolepididae), an intestinal parasite of the Pygmy white-toothed shrew, Suncus etruscus (Savi, 1822) (Insectivora: Soricidae: Crocidurinae) in the region of Banyuls-sur-Mer and Cerbère (Oriental Pyrenees, France).
(15) Every weekend he drives back to his family in Lille, taking the shuttle, bien sur.
(16) A subsequent wave of patchwork measures – including beefed-up border security, advertising campaigns in Central America warning people against travelling to the US, and the multimillion-dollar Southern Border Program (Plan Frontera Sur) to apprehend migrants in Mexico – were implemented in lieu of comprehensive immigration reforms that Republican lawmakers opposed.
(17) This, my friends, is what it's really like to be a film journalist: the sweaty people carrier, the surly heavies, the interminable sitting around....
(18) Then, when in turn the customs regulations became tight, he opened his own small restaurant in the Provençal town of L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue.
(19) This study deals with the medicinal use of 30 plants collected in the Municipio de Los Cabos and part of the Municipio de la Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico.
(20) The body of an 86-year-old woman was found in her flooded house in Souppes-sur-Loing in central France , where some towns have been hit by the worst flooding in more than 100 years.