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.
  • Think the first round was nasty?
    — Gromer Jeffers Jr, Dallas Morning News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • That was a nasty way to end the game.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 24 Dec. 2025
  • The point is not to be nice or nasty.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The taste was nasty, the smell was nasty.
    — Tori Mason, CBS News, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The world hasn’t — yet — come to a nasty end.
    — Daniel Moss, Twin Cities, 12 Apr. 2026
  • This could lead to a clash of wills, which might get nasty.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 17 Sep. 2025
  • And a lot of it is pretty nasty.
    — Mikelle Street, Them., 19 Aug. 2025
  • The weird thing is the British press is so nasty.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The end of this nasty battle is near.
    — May 17, CBS News, 17 May 2026
  • And what about all that nasty mother stuff?
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2025
  • His crossovers were nasty and sudden.
    — Sam Vecenie, New York Times, 12 June 2026
  • Here, nasty notions play no part.
    — David Peisner, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Except the dogs’ nasty odors drive her mad.
    — Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The dark dirt from the rails grinding was nasty.
    — David Kamp, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Yet thieves have found a nasty workaround.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 12 June 2026
  • The Twits are so gross and puerile and nasty in the book.
    — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Oct. 2025
  • That life, like Hobbes said, is nasty, brutish, and short.
    — Richard Stengel, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Pulling in a big piece of the special needs trust would be nasty.
    — Peter J Reilly, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
  • He was dragged a few feet and got a nasty case of carpet burn.
    — Freda Kreier, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Switching out a pump in a pit filled with raw sewage is nasty work.
    — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 12 Apr. 2025
  • But then there's one or two nasty comments, and those stick in my brain.
    — Bella Cacciatore, Glamour, 14 Apr. 2022
  • After the Olympic break, things turn nasty.
    — Josh Yohe, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Being a nasty woman is not a crime.
    — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 31 May 2026

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