nastiness

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Lack of cleanliness. uncountable
    — They neither comb their Head, nor wash their Face, / But think their virtuous Nastiness a grace.
  2. Dirt, filth. uncountable
    — [T]he helliſh Noiſe, the Roaring, Svvearing, and Clamour, the Stench and Naſtineſs, and all the dreadful croud of Afflicting things that I ſavv there; joyn'd together to make the Place ſeem an Emblem of Hell itſelf, and a kind of an Entrance into it.
  3. Indecency; corruption; unkindness, meanness, spite, harshness, cruelty. uncountable
    — Among current novelists, Martin Amis lacks intellectual force but is well supplied with nastiness, which occasionally resembles humor.
  4. Unpleasantness, disagreeableness (to the senses). uncountable
    — 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.
  5. A nasty action, object, quality, etc. (all senses of nasty). countable
    — 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?

词形变化

nastinesses plural

词源

Etymology tree
English nasty
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English nastiness
From nasty + -ness.
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