nastiness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nastiness
Noun
  • After personally speaking with students, their remorse revealed that ignorance, rather than malice, was the culprit.
    Mark Treyger, New York Daily News, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Following the heinous crime, there is an outpouring of malice for the victim, and of admiration for the perpetrator.
    Onkar Ghate, Orange County Register, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • For the program, the zoo takes the collected and recorded spiders and milks them for their venom so the material can used to make anti-venom.
    Rachel Raposas, People.com, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Their stingers deliver as much venom as a snake or seven times that of a honeybee.
    Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Even those Republicans who are wary of his volatile leadership style, penchant for vulgarity and willingness to violate conservative orthodoxies are generally reluctant to air those criticisms publicly.
    Mike Lillis, The Hill, 21 Dec. 2024
  • Corbet’s awkward forcing of his characters into his conceptual framework leads to absurdities and vulgarities—not least in the depiction of László’s first and only Black acquaintance, a laborer named Gordon (Isaach De Bankolé), as a heroin addict.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • He’s been terrified, in love, hit in the head and, most often, in a state of bitter hatred.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Many worry Musk’s words have given new momentum to far-right figures bent on using the historic abuse, which was primarily carried out by groups of men of mainly Pakistani heritage, to stir racial hatred.
    Nic Robertson, CNN, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Ordinary Syrians like Hamed and Walaa are aghast as the scale of their criminal cruelty continues to be revealed.
    Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Jan. 2025
  • For decades, the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, also known as the Florida School for Boys, was a place of cruelty and neglect disguised as rehabilitation.
    Ray Watford, Sun Sentinel, 28 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • His production was mostly in spite of the Giants’ reality and did not change the organization’s bottom line.
    Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 4 Feb. 2025
  • In spite of the tech rout this week — the PHLX Semiconductor Index slumped 6% — investors remain wary that the full implications of DeepSeek have yet to play out in stock prices.
    Sarah Min, CNBC, 31 Jan. 2025
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