NASTY in a Sentence

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49 example sentences for NASTY, such as:

1. The news gave me a nasty shock.
2. Don't be so nasty, Rhett Butler.
3. There's a nasty streak in her character.
4. The press have been very nasty about him.
5. Life has a nasty habit of repeating itself.

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 Meanings and Examples of NASTY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
nasty
 a.  very dirty, foul; disgusting; nauseous
Classic Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1  If I can just see him privately before supper, perhaps I'll find out the truth--that it's just one of the twins' nasty practical jokes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  Then she was on the floor and Rhett Butler was advancing toward her through the aisle of the crowd, that nasty mocking smile on his face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  He would raise his brows in that nasty way he always had when she even mentioned Ashley's name and, like as not, would refuse to give her the hat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
4  If it hadn't been for the Slatterys--if it hadn't been for that nasty Emmie who'd had a bastard brat by their overseer--Ellen wouldn't have died.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
5  This overdressed, common, nasty piece of poor white trash was coming up the steps of Tara, bridling and grinning as if she belonged here.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
6  It simply made everybody furious that an old speculator who always said nasty things about the Confederacy should have so much money when we were all so poor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
7  Don't be so nasty, Rhett Butler.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
8  Bonnie, who was always permitted to have the last drops in the glass, did not think the smell of wine nasty at all.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
9  Don't suck the feathers, darling, they may be nasty.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
10  Every one knows you're a thousand times handsomer and cleverer than Bertha; but then you're not nasty.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
11  I knew, too, that Ambrosch put upon her some chores a girl ought not to do, and that the farm-hands around the country joked in a nasty way about it.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVII
12  The truth is that such a lot of nasty brutes kept crawling over me that even to speak of it gives me the shudders.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
13  My servant is an old country-woman, ill-natured from stupidity, and, moreover, there is always a nasty smell about her.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: I
14  There in its nasty, stinking, underground home our insulted, crushed and ridiculed mouse promptly becomes absorbed in cold, malignant and, above all, everlasting spite.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: III
15  His moans become nasty, disgustingly malignant, and go on for whole days and nights.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: IV
Example Sentence:
1  He needed an operation to close a nasty gash in his arm.
2  There's a nasty streak in her character.
3  I had a nasty feeling that he would follow me.
4  Life has a nasty habit of repeating itself.
5  Local economists have looked into their crystal balls and seen something rather nasty.
6  He had a nasty moment when he thought he'd lost his passport.
7  The news gave me a nasty shock.
8  The press have been very nasty about him.
9  I was frightened when I saw the nasty gash in her arm.
10  As if I would talk on such a subject! Our family always HATED cats: nasty, low, vulgar things! Don't let me hear the name again!
11  Selena's seraphic appearance belied her nasty, bitter personality.
12  Am I the only one who sees Robert Gibbs as a nasty, useless, smarmy dolt?
13  With a nasty defense, a coach who's never forgotten football is a game, and a "Why not us?" mentality that's inspired them all season, the Seahawks shocked most people east of the Rockies on Sunday night.