Nasty

(adj.) exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent; 'a nasty problem'; 'a good man to have on your side in a tight situation' .

(adj.) offensive or even (of persons) malicious; 'in a nasty mood'; 'a nasty accident'; 'a nasty shock'; 'a nasty smell'; 'a nasty trick to pull'; 'Will he say nasty things at my funeral?'- Ezra Pound .

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• But I can't bear to see them dirty and nasty. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• Gurt kept close beside Maurice, fighting like the old sea-dog he was, and got a nasty stab in the thigh, which brought him to the ground. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• No,' replied Mr. Limbkins; 'at least, as it's a nasty business, we think you ought to take something less than the premium we offered. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Patches of nasty ooze floated, yellow-white, on the dead surface of the water. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• He declared that the foreign bodies were ugly, nasty, brutal. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• The Duke of York talks in a very nasty way, said Fred Bentinck, I--I, for my part, hate all immodest conversation. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• The father hesitated, he was in a nasty position. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• There would be countless more aeroplanes, bigger and much nastier bombs. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• There's bound to be, Mr. Jackson continued, the nastiest kind of a cleaning up. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• The subsistence which they find there is so scanty, that they are eager to fish up the nastiest garbage thrown overboard from any European ship. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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