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nastiness

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Editorial note

I hope Daniel can do more to fix the nastiness that can exist here on HN.

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Quick take

a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of nastiness gathered in one view.

noun

a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse

noun

malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty

noun

the quality of being unpleasant; "I flinched at the nastiness of his wound"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for nastiness.

noun

the quality of being unpleasant; "I flinched at the nastiness of his wound"

Example sentences

1

I hope Daniel can do more to fix the nastiness that can exist here on HN.

2

Boy is the content/nastiness ratio low in this one.

3

The real problems are more subtle: users voting up fluff posts, nastiness in comment threads...

4

No, but in the UK there is a wind of judgemental tabloid nastiness in this area.

5

Websites would probably be stuck with "pay for inclusion" and all the other nastiness of the early days of search.

6

Yeah, he technically did something wrong, but Booz Allen should come into the spotlight, as they are profiting from this nastiness.

7

Worse still, it then excludes them from the friends they might still have, and a lot of things the victim can use to fight back, and distract them selves from the nastiness.

8

At most, they were better at scaling the last step up and increasing the size of the kill lists, torture chambers, and the nastiness of the military force against journalists.

9

I think the shift from personal to electronic interaction is largely to blame for the level of shrill nastiness that pervades our present-day culture.

10

You get all the same problems any preemptive concurrency model does, with some added nastiness; in exchange you get some slightly better scalability numbers.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use nastiness in a sentence?

I hope Daniel can do more to fix the nastiness that can exist here on HN.

What does nastiness mean?

a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse

What part of speech is nastiness?

nastiness is commonly used as noun.