nastiness

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Recent Examples of nastiness In this battle for reputation protection, no one’s a winner — including the audience who might just want to shower after all this nastiness and cruelty ends. Randy Myers, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025 Released post-Columbine and heavily influenced by that tragedy, Scream 3 walks back from the gruesome violence and flashes of genuine nastiness that permeated the previous installments. Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Sep. 2025 No wonder a little nastiness surfaced at the fair when the Senate candidates took reporters’ questions. Laura Washington, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nastiness
Noun
  • These materials can help Ellis prove that Alvarado acted with actual malice.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 15 Oct. 2025
  • In addition to stealing students’ data, the worm had also altered some records, perhaps for no better reason than simple malice.
    Big Think, Big Think, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In fact, plenty of other things in your home surpass the toilet in terms of grossness.
    Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Brain rot has become unavoidable, its grossness ubiquitous.
    Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Spiders have venom to subdue prey, but the majority have fangs that are too tiny to puncture human skin.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Luckily the snake did not inject any venom.
    Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Songs marked explicit mean their lyrics include swear words or other vulgarities.
    Melina Khan, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The presence of these planes flying close to our Caribbean Sea is a vulgarity, a provocation, a threat to the security of the nation.
    John Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • An earnest, has-a-costume-for-everything kind of guy, Daub is allergic to the greige and the dinge.
    Sandra Upson, Wired, 18 Jan. 2021
  • Dinges said the two crewmembers whose sleep remained steady -- even in the absence of conventional daylight -- were those who kept to a strict schedule and found other ways to control their biological clocks.
    Michael Nedelman, CNN, 1 June 2017
Noun
  • The former screen siren was fined nearly $25,000 in 2008 after being convicted of provoking discrimination and racial hatred for writing that Muslims are destroying her country.
    Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Looking at me with pure hatred.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This will avoid causing damage to the sealant and potential staining.
    Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Critically, the ancient teeth from betel nut chewers are distinguishable because of red staining.
    Elizabeth Rayne, ArsTechnica, 19 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • What has changed in recent years, Pettman argues, is the ease—and cruelty—with which people can enter and exit one another’s lives.
    Anna Holmes, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Both characters struggle with the weight of their guilt, but where Cole has fallen deeper into cruelty, Grasso takes the first step on a path to redemption.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2025

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“Nastiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nastiness. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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