nastiness
Cruelty or malice
Nastiness is the quality of being unpleasant, mean-spirited, or disgusting.
It can describe physical revulsion the nastiness of the smell or hostile behavior I was unprepared for the nastiness of his response.
The word covers a range from mild unpleasantness to genuine cruelty or filth.
Petty malicious intent
- maliceIntent to cause harm
- malevolenceActive ill will
- viciousnessExtreme cruelty or spite
- meannessSpiteful, unkind disposition
vindictiveness · cruelty · ill-will · wickedness · venom · hostility · antagonism · enmity
State of being unclean
- grimeIngrained surface dirt
- squalorDirty, degraded living conditions
- uncleanlinessState of being soiled
- filthinessState of being unclean
muck · sliminess · griminess · foulness · smelliness · stench · putridity · rottenness
Quality inspiring strong aversion
- revulsionIntense physical disgust
- loathsomenessQuality inspiring strong disgust
- foulnessOffensive, corrupt quality
- vilenessDespicable quality
offensiveness · grotesqueness · hideousness · abhorrence · odiousness · sickening · nauseating · stomach-turning
Lack of sophistication
- coarsenessRough or vulgar quality
- profanityVulgar or obscene speech
- lewdnessCrude sexual indecency
- raunchinessCrude sexual vulgarity
obscenity · indecency · smuttiness · bawdiness · ribaldry · tastelessness · crassness · sleaziness
Proneness to agitation
- churlishnessRude, ungracious behavior
- surlinessIll-tempered rudeness
- grumpinessBad-tempered disposition
- cantankerousnessIll-tempered, quarrelsome nature
peevishness · petulance · snappishness · crossness · testiness · crabbiness · sourness · acerbity
Quality of causing harm
- venomousnessPoison-bearing nature
- harmfulnessCapacity to cause damage
- noxiousnessQuality of being harmful
- corrosivenessCapacity to chemically degrade
virulence · destructiveness · contamination · pollution · blight · contagion · infection · malignancy
spite
Petty malicious intent
- maliceIntent to cause harm
- malevolenceActive ill will
- viciousnessExtreme cruelty or spite
meanness · vindictiveness · cruelty · ill-will · wickedness · venom · hostility · antagonism · enmity · animosity
dirtiness
State of being unclean
- grimeIngrained surface dirt
- squalorDirty, degraded living conditions
- uncleanlinessState of being soiled
filthiness · muck · sliminess · griminess · foulness · smelliness · stench · putridity · rottenness · decay
repulsiveness
Quality inspiring strong aversion
- revulsionIntense physical disgust
- loathsomenessQuality inspiring strong disgust
- foulnessOffensive, corrupt quality
vileness · offensiveness · grotesqueness · hideousness · abhorrence · odiousness · sickening · nauseating · stomach-turning · gross-out
crudeness
Lack of sophistication
- coarsenessRough or vulgar quality
- profanityVulgar or obscene speech
- lewdnessCrude sexual indecency
raunchiness · obscenity · indecency · smuttiness · bawdiness · ribaldry · tastelessness · crassness · sleaziness · seediness
irritability
Proneness to agitation
- churlishnessRude, ungracious behavior
- surlinessIll-tempered rudeness
- grumpinessBad-tempered disposition
cantankerousness · peevishness · petulance · snappishness · crossness · testiness · crabbiness · sourness · acerbity · waspishness
poisonousness
Quality of causing harm
- venomousnessPoison-bearing nature
- harmfulnessCapacity to cause damage
- noxiousnessQuality of being harmful
corrosiveness · virulence · destructiveness · contamination · pollution · blight · contagion · infection · malignancy · perniciousness
- bad traitsmeanness, rudeness, cruelty, dishonesty, hostility
- disgustdisgust, disgusting, disgusted, revulsion, repulsion
- filthdirt, grime, dirty, filthy, muck
- petty behaviorsspite, malice, meanness, bitterness, resentment
- unpleasantnesspain, anger, sadness, misery, disgust
- vicesgreed, envy, lust, gluttony, vanity
nastinesskindness
Considerate, caring disposition
niceness · friendliness · warmth · cordiality · pleasantness
nastinessgoodness
Moral excellence
benevolence · kindliness · charity · compassion · decency
nastinesscleanliness
Absence of dirt
spotlessness · immaculateness · purity · freshness · pleasantness