Nasty

Adjective

 * 1) Disgusting; physically repellent.
 * 2) Indecent or offensive.
 * 3) Malicious or spiteful.
 * He tells nasty lies.
 * 1) Very unpleasant.
 * It was a nasty night to venture out.
 * 1) Grave or dangerous.
 * The cyclist had a nasty accident.
 * The cyclist had a nasty accident.

Noun

 * 1) Something nasty.
 * 2)  Sexual intercourse.

Derived terms

 * do the nasty


 * nastygram
 * video nasty

Thesaurus
Fescennine, Rabelaisian, abhorrent, abominable, abusive, acute, annoying, arrant, atrocious, awful, awkward, bad, bad-tempered, baleful, barfy, base, bawdy, beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt, bitchy, black, blameworthy, blue, boorish, brackish, brutal, caddish, cantankerous, churlish, cloying, coarse, contemptible, crabbed, cranky, crappy, critical, crotchety, crude, cruel, cussed, dangerous, deplorable, despicable, detestable, difficult, dire, dirty, disagreeable, disgusting, dreadful, egregious, enormous, evil, execrable, fecal, feculent, fetid, filthy, flagrant, flyblown, forbidding, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, fulsome, gloppy, grievous, gross, grubby, gunky, harmful, hateful, heinous, high, horrible, horrid, icky, ignoble, ill-bred, ill-natured, ill-tempered, improper, impure, inconsiderate, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, infamous, iniquitous, insensitive, invidious, irascible, ithyphallic, lamentable, lewd, licentious, loathsome, lousy, loutish, louty, lurid, maggoty, malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, malodorous, mawkish, mean, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, monstrous, mucky, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, nefarious, noisome, notorious, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, off color, offensive, ordurous, ornery, outrageous, overripe, painful, pitiable, pitiful, poisonous, pornographic, puky, putrid, rancid, rank, raunchy, rebarbative, regrettable, repellent, reprehensible, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, ribald, risque, rotten, rude, sad, salacious, scabby, scandalous, scatological, schlock, scummy, scurfy, scurrile, scurrilous, scurvy, serious, severe, shabby, shameful, shitty, shocking, shoddy, sickening, slabby, slimy, sloppy, sloshy, sludgy, slushy, smoking-room, smutty, soily, sordid, spiteful, spoiled, sposhy, squalid, stinking, suggestive, sultry, surly, tactless, terrible, too bad, ugly, unchaste, unclean, uncleanly, unfeminine, ungenteel, ungentle, ungentlemanly, unladylike, unpleasant, unprintable, unrefined, unrepeatable, unsavory, unseemly, unsolicitous, untoward, vicious, vile, villainous, vomity, vulgar, weevily, wicked, woeful, wormy, worst, worthless, wretched, yecchy, yucky

Etymology
in the sense "foul, filthy, dirty, unclean"

Theories include:
 * nastre:, shortened form of villenastre:, from vilein: + -astre:, from term|-aster|lang=la}}.
 * Dutch nestig:
 * Old High German naz = "wet"
 * Likely reinforced by a Scandinavian source (compare Swedish dialect naskug = "dirty, nasty").
 * A hardened form of an old word "neshy" = "soft".
 * Variant of "naughty"? See entry for aught/naught in Wikipedia & zikkir
 * Modern usage of the word "nasty" is sometimes attributed to the very popular but often derogatory 19th Century American political cartoons of Thomas Nast, but this is inconsistent with its usage long before Mr. Nast's birth in 1840.

Translations

 * Czech:, ohavný, protivný,


 * German:, ,

Anagrams

 * antsy, Santy, tansy