Synonyms for nasty
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Offensive to the senses
dirty, foul, gross, revolting; see offensive 2, vulgar 1.
Indecent
immoral, immodest, smutty; see lewd 1, 2, shameful 1, wicked 1.
Likely to be harmful
injurious, damaging, noxious; see dangerous 1, fierce 2, harmful, poisonous.
Unkind
sarcastic, critical, mean; see cruel 1, fierce 1, ruthless 1.
See nasty in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
adjective
Heavily soiled; very dirty or unclean:
filthy, foul, squalid, vile. See cleanExtremely unpleasant to the senses or feelings:
atrocious, disgusting, foul, horrid, nauseating, offensive, repellent, repulsive, revolting, sickening, ugly, unwholesome, vile. See like, painOffensive to accepted standards of decency:
barnyard, bawdy, broad, coarse, dirty, Fescennine, filthy, foul, gross, lewd, obscene, profane, ribald, scatologic, scatological, scurrilous, smutty, vulgar. (Slang) raunchy. See decentCharacterized by intense ill will or spite:
black, despiteful, evil, hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean2, poisonous, spiteful, venomous, vicious, wicked. (Slang) bitchy. See attitudeHaving or showing a bad temper:
bad-tempered, cantankerous, crabbed, cranky, cross, disagreeable, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, peevish, petulant, querulous, snappish, snappy, surly, testy, ugly, waspish. (Informal) crabby, mean2. Idiom: out of sorts. See attitudeSo objectionable as to elicit despisal or deserve condemnation:
abhorrent, abominable, antipathetic, contemptible, despicable, despisable, detestable, disgusting, filthy, foul, infamous, loathsome, lousy, low, mean2, nefarious, obnoxious, odious, repugnant, rotten, shabby, vile, wretched. See good
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