English English Dictionary
- very bad or unpleasant in English:
1. 
nasty
I have such a nasty headache. / 2. Sheriff, eavesdropping is a very nasty habit. / 3. I can be very nice, and I can be very nasty.
His nasty comments fueled the argument.
nasty accident
Two nasty guys robbed me of my jewels and ran away.
He doesn't look that way, but he's really a nasty piece of work.
Everybody has a flaw. And it looks like yours is smellin' like my nasty guts.
The definition of nasty is something that is very dirty, unpleasant or offensive.
The contents of a trash container can get pretty nasty.
He had a nasty experience at the dentist when he was young, and the memories of this put him off dental surgeries for life.
A nasty thrill of fear shot through me and the sound of Chris moving his feet let me know that he to
My parents quarrelled and it was a nasty situation.
Don't be so nasty TO your brother - he's four years younger than you!
Why is Cloutier in such a nasty mood?' 'He has lost a lot of money.'
Technology could solve some nasty problems.
English word "very bad or unpleasant"(nasty) occurs in sets:
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dreadful
dreadful weather
This is the first time I've seen such a dreadful movie.
The massacre in Norway and the recent rebellion and the booty in England, are dreadful in consideration of the circumstances that the world drifted into.
I've never heard anything more dreadful.
It is dreadful that a nuclear crisis has hit Japan.
The consequences of Sendai's earthquake were dreadful!
The yacht was at the mercy of the dreadful storm.
Eleanor suffered severely for her conjugal affection even after the death of her husband by being imprisoned for the dreadful period of forty-three years.
It was good for both of us to get away from that dreadful new woman at work.
Some people love going to the opera, but for others there's no more dreadful way to spend three hours.
It was a dreadful shok for poor Charles to discover that his wife was cheating on him!
1. I had a dreadful dream last night. / 2. Because he really did have a dreadful habit of... / 3. In the night I heard a dreadful scream. / 4. There's been a dreadful mistake.
If I would have let those fears hold me back, I would still be working a job doing energy audits, is what I did before this, in houses, which is going and checking houses for energy efficiency, and it was just dreadful.
If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.
English word "very bad or unpleasant"(dreadful) occurs in sets:
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3. 
awful
How awful!
I'm afraid there's been some awful news.
I have a nasty feeling that something awful is going to happen.
I had an awful experience today, so I'm going to have a beer and go straight to bed.
Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.
I dare not probe too deeply, lest I uncover the awful truth!
I also heard that it'd been awful around the Olympic Flame.
Subdued girls are generally the prettiest I reckon. The loud, bustling ones are awful.
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
I realized then that this awful cellar was the only place that could save our lives.
This has been the most awful day in my eleven-year-old life.
Both the food and the weather were awful, so we went home early.
With such awful weather outside, can you believe it's July?
We should therefore stop this awful campaign and tell the people of Ireland the truth.
I'm such a bad drawer, my paitings are awful.
4. 
abominable
an abominable noise
Her behaviour was abominable.
The prisoners are forced to live in abominable conditions.
The weather's been abominable all week.
The abominable snowman is a Himalayan monster.
English word "very bad or unpleasant"(abominable) occurs in sets:
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