How to Use nasty in a Sentence

nasty

adjective

• The medicine left a nasty taste in my mouth.
• She called him a few nasty names and left.
• He said lots of downright nasty things about her.
• He sent a nasty letter to the company.
• She's got quite a nasty temper.
• That nasty old man yelled at me just for stepping on his lawn!
• She has a nasty habit of biting her fingernails.
• The Sandero proves that cheap doesn't have to mean nasty.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 26 May 2023
• The forecast is for the weather to turn nasty on the weekend.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 7 Apr. 2023
• The last thing the franchise and Lillard should want is a nasty split.
  — Afentres, oregonlive, 6 July 2023
• He was dragged a few feet and got a nasty case of carpet burn.
  — Freda Kreier, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• In the first half, the 34-year-old striker took a nasty fall after a hard challenge in the box.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2023
• The whole, nasty cocktail, destructive of soul, mind, and body.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 24 Mar. 2023
• But a few rules of thumb can stave off some nasty surprises.
  — Joe Rennison, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023
• Head here to find out how Jobe learned to harness his nasty slider.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 31 July 2023
• Tiffany Stratton took a nasty bump to the outside where the women barely caught her.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
• And the police commissioner was very nasty about it to her.
  — NBC News, 17 Sep. 2023
• When my plate arrived, my friend made a face as though it was smeared with something nasty.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
• For a nasty cut, Lopez is in good spirits, now laughing and winking with the nurses.
  — Toby Muse, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2024
• Carpet pythons are not venomous but do possess a nasty bite thanks to dozens of teeth.
  — Warren Kulo | [e-mail], al, 30 Aug. 2023
• The sketch caused a firestorm of internet memes and a deluge of nasty emails from Patriots fans.
  — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
• The liquid in which the stem cells are frozen — once in the bloodstream, circulated through the lungs, and breathed out — creates a nasty taste.
  — Brittany Trang, STAT, 13 Dec. 2023
• For most, the illness consisted of a nasty flu-like illness with an itchy full-body rash.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 16 Nov. 2023
• Then the embargo lifted and some of the reviews were pretty nasty.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 16 June 2023
• The Patriots quarterback forced the first challenger to the ground with a nasty jump cut that left the linebacker flailing.
  — Varun Shankar, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2023
• Reading reviews from 1991, I was struck but not surprised by how few of them, even the nasty ones, describe the film as goofy or campy.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2024
• But remember, David had a slingshot and a rock, and Goliath had a pretty nasty fall.
  — Seth Yudof, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2023
• The talent hasn’t gone anywhere, but the monoculture—his theme, his muse, and his one true medium—played a nasty trick on us all.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
• That nasty bit of fun was spoiled when the maid of honor could be the couple’s daughter or the best man her previous husband.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
• That nasty bit of fun was spoiled when the maid of honor could be the couple’s daughter, or the best man her previous husband.
  — Miss Manners | Judith Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 11 July 2023

Last Updated: 6 May 2024