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Meaning of nasty

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  nasty
      adj 1: offensive or even (of persons) malicious; "in a nasty
             mood"; "a nasty accident"; "a nasty shock"; "a nasty
             smell"; "a nasty trick to pull"; "Will he say nasty
             things at my funeral?"- Ezra Pound [syn: {nasty},
             {awful}] [ant: {nice}]
      2: exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent; "a nasty
         problem"; "a good man to have on your side in a tight
         situation" [syn: {nasty}, {tight}]
      3: characterized by obscenity; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul
         language"; "smutty jokes" [syn: {cruddy}, {filthy}, {foul},
         {nasty}, {smutty}]
      4: disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter;
         "as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a
         room" [syn: {filthy}, {foul}, {nasty}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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