English Dictionary

nastiness

noun

(uncountable) Lack of cleanliness. / (uncountable) Dirt, filth. / (uncountable) Indecency; corruption; unkindness, meanness, spite, harshness, cruelty.

The nastiness of the room was overwhelming.

意味（1）

(uncountable) Lack of cleanliness.

They neither comb their Head, nor wash their Face,

They neither comb their Head, nor wash their Face, But think their virtuous Nastiness a grace.

意味（2）

(uncountable) Dirt, filth.

[…] the hellish Noise, the Roaring, Swearing, and Clamour, the Stench and Nastiness and all the dreadful Crowd of afflicting Things that I saw there, joined together to make the Place seem an Emblem of Hell itself, and a Kind of entrance into it.

意味（3）

(uncountable) Indecency; corruption; unkindness, meanness, spite, harshness, cruelty.

Among current novelists, Martin Amis lacks intellectual force but is well supplied with nastiness, which occasionally resembles humor.

意味（4）

(uncountable) Unpleasantness, disagreeableness (to the senses).

Some medical beast had revived Tar-water in those days as a fine medicine, and Mrs. Joe always kept a supply of it in the cupboard; having a belief in its virtues correspondent to its nastiness.

意味（5）

(countable) A nasty action, object, quality, etc. (all senses of nasty).

If we, who are educated, habitually submit to have copper in our preserves, red-lead in our cayenne, alum in our bread, pigments in our tea, and ineffable nastinesses in our fish-sauce, what can we expect of the poor?