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# nastiness

«nastiness» in Mova's school dictionary: **Unkind, mean or spiteful behaviour** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (nastiness — uncountable; a nastiness — rare)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Unkind, mean or spiteful behaviour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nastiness/#m1)

2) Being very unpleasant, as in the nastiness of a smell or an illness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nastiness/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in stories, PSHE and everyday talk about bullying and unkind behaviour ("There's no need for nastiness") and to describe how bad something is.

### examples

- There was no need for that nastiness; say sorry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nastiness/#x1)
- The nastiness of the comments online upset her. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nastiness/#x2)
- We talked in class about how to stand up to nastiness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nastiness/#x3)
- The nastiness of the smell made us hold our noses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nastiness/#x4)
- Despite the nastiness of the bug, he was better in a week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nastiness/#x5)
- The villain's nastiness grew worse with every chapter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nastiness/#x6)
- Kindness can beat nastiness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nastiness/#x7)

### note

Uncountable. From "nasty" + "-ness": the "y" changes to "i". Adjective "nasty", adverb "nastily".

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «nastiness» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nastiness/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.