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nastiness - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
noun noun noun nastiness of the weather.noun nastiness of the trick.noun noun noun Synonyms Foulness, defilement, pollution.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun uncountable a lack of cleanliness noun US ,(uncountable ) dirt or filth noun uncountable indecency or corruption noun countable an unpleasant or disagreeable action, taste or smell
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun noun noun
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Obama. will suceed dispite all the nastiness from the far right
Deeds tries to shake up Virginia campaign with big speech 2009
The current nastiness is more a product of the political theories of personal destruction that the left worked the early 2000s with, and that the Republicans have gleefully picked up.
Matthew Yglesias » Polarization + Supermajority = Disaster 2010
The current nastiness is more a product of the political theories of personal destruction that the left worked the early 2000s with, and that the Republicans have gleefully picked up.
Matthew Yglesias » Polarization + Supermajority = Disaster 2010
It takes courage to put it out there in the first place but then to step back far enough to deconstruct and come to terms with all of this nastiness is truly admirable.
Shame And The Written Mom | Her Bad Mother 2009
The current nastiness is more a product of the political theories of personal destruction that the left worked the early 2000s with,
Matthew Yglesias » Polarization + Supermajority = Disaster 2010
Irrational, philosophically uneducated (calling four of the most popular philosophers peddlers of irrationality and then holding up Ayn Rand of all people), homophobic, heterosexist, backward, and perhaps s few things equal in nastiness to the words you directed against me and every like me.
MIND MELD: Books That Hold Special Places in Our Hearts and On Our Shelves 2009
I certainly don't expect my friends to pretend that they are perfect and without flaw, but gratuitous self-directed nastiness is not the same thing, and not okay.
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway 2008
The hatred and nastiness is too much to stomach and as a Democrat I hate to say it but the Obama supporters are the nastiest.
Republicans compare Obama to failed policies 2008
Being a Viet Nam era vet, I, like many other men and women my age, well remember coming home to insults and nastiness from the American public at the time.
Blitzer: Remember the soldiers 2008
Uh, Venus, not sure how any of that nastiness is supposed to help.
For $5, Eat With Clinton - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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