See nastiness on Wiktionary
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[…], volume II, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, pages 448-449:", "text": "Erasmus ascribes the frequent plagues in England to the nastiness and dirt and slovenly habits among the people. “The floors,” says he, “are commonly of clay, strewed with rushes, under which lies unmolested an ancient collection of beer, grease, fragments, bones, spittle, excrements of dogs and cats, and every thing that is nasty.”", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Lack of cleanliness." ], "id": "en-nastiness-en-noun-W26c4VDm", "links": [ [ "Lack", "lack" ], [ "cleanliness", "cleanliness" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(uncountable) Lack of cleanliness." ], "tags": [ "uncountable" ] }, { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "ref": "1722 (indicated as 1721), [Daniel Defoe], The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. […], London: […] W[illiam Rufus] Chetwood, […]; and T. Edling, […], published 1722, →OCLC, page 337:", "text": "[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.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Dirt, filth." ], "id": "en-nastiness-en-noun-9vwVh3QX", "links": [ [ "Dirt", "dirt" ], [ "filth", "filth" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(uncountable) Dirt, filth." ], "tags": [ "uncountable" ] }, { "categories": [ { "_dis": "4 20 51 3 22", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "7 25 44 5 19", "kind": "other", "name": "English terms suffixed with -ness", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "6 18 62 5 8", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "5 10 76 4 4", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1995 September 4, John Skow, “Snobs and Wetbacks”, in Time:", "text": "Among current novelists, Martin Amis lacks intellectual force but is well supplied with nastiness, which occasionally resembles humor.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2017 February 18, Teddy Wayne, “The Culture of Nastiness”, in New York Times:", "text": "Despite efforts to curb hate speech, eradicate bullying and extend tolerance, a culture of nastiness has metastasized in which meanness is routinely rewarded, and common decency and civility are brushed aside.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Indecency; corruption; unkindness, meanness, spite, harshness, cruelty." ], "id": "en-nastiness-en-noun-M7mBfF40", "links": [ [ "Indecency", "indecency" ], [ "corruption", "corruption" ], [ "unkindness", "unkindness" ], [ "meanness", "meanness" ], [ "spite", "spite" ], [ "harshness", "harshness" ], [ "cruelty", "cruelty" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(uncountable) Indecency; corruption; unkindness, meanness, spite, harshness, cruelty." ], "tags": [ "uncountable" ] }, { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "ref": "1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter II, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 22:", "text": "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.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2011 June 5, Lucinda Baring, “Florida: driving along the Overseas Highway to Key West”, in The Daily Telegraph:", "text": "During the day, the surrounding blocks are no better, full of cheesy bars, tacky shops and brash, neon nastiness.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Unpleasantness, disagreeableness (to the senses)." ], "id": "en-nastiness-en-noun-lETfLpiJ", "links": [ [ "Unpleasantness", "unpleasantness" ], [ "disagreeableness", "disagreeableness" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(uncountable) Unpleasantness, disagreeableness (to the senses)." ], "tags": [ "uncountable" ] }, { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "ref": "1854, John Simon, Preface to Reports Relating to the Sanitary Condition of the City of London, London: John W. Parker & Son, page xx:", "text": "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?", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1899, Charles George Harper, chapter 39, in The Bath Road: History, Fashion & Frivolity on an Old Highway, London: Chapman & Hall, pages 237–238:", "text": "[…] imagine the delights of bathing when the Baths were open to public view, the said public delighting to throw dead cats, offal, and all manner of nastinesses among the bathers!", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2001 November 4, Arion Berger, “‘New American Language’: Bern Again”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:", "text": "He’s too thoughtful to pretend he’s speaking for humankind on what passes for a Dan Bern protest song—“Tape” folds in a conversational outreach to a girl (“Baby did you get the tape I sent?”) along with a rundown of various societal nastinesses, including the prescient, “We might get to see World War III by Thanksgiving Day.”", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A nasty action, object, quality, etc. (all senses of nasty)." ], "id": "en-nastiness-en-noun-IVo9J1mS", "links": [ [ "nasty", "nasty" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(countable) A nasty action, object, quality, etc. (all senses of nasty)." ], "tags": [ "countable" ] } ], "word": "nastiness" }
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Edling, […], published 1722, →OCLC, page 337:", "text": "[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.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Dirt, filth." ], "links": [ [ "Dirt", "dirt" ], [ "filth", "filth" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(uncountable) Dirt, filth." ], "tags": [ "uncountable" ] }, { "categories": [ "English terms with quotations", "English uncountable nouns" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1995 September 4, John Skow, “Snobs and Wetbacks”, in Time:", "text": "Among current novelists, Martin Amis lacks intellectual force but is well supplied with nastiness, which occasionally resembles humor.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2017 February 18, Teddy Wayne, “The Culture of Nastiness”, in New York Times:", "text": "Despite efforts to curb hate speech, eradicate bullying and extend tolerance, a culture of nastiness has metastasized in which meanness is routinely rewarded, and common decency and civility are brushed aside.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Indecency; corruption; unkindness, meanness, spite, harshness, cruelty." ], "links": [ [ "Indecency", "indecency" ], [ "corruption", "corruption" ], [ "unkindness", "unkindness" ], [ "meanness", "meanness" ], [ "spite", "spite" ], [ "harshness", "harshness" ], [ "cruelty", "cruelty" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(uncountable) Indecency; corruption; unkindness, meanness, spite, harshness, cruelty." ], "tags": [ "uncountable" ] }, { "categories": [ "English terms with quotations", "English uncountable nouns" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter II, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 22:", "text": "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.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2011 June 5, Lucinda Baring, “Florida: driving along the Overseas Highway to Key West”, in The Daily Telegraph:", "text": "During the day, the surrounding blocks are no better, full of cheesy bars, tacky shops and brash, neon nastiness.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Unpleasantness, disagreeableness (to the senses)." ], "links": [ [ "Unpleasantness", "unpleasantness" ], [ "disagreeableness", "disagreeableness" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(uncountable) Unpleasantness, disagreeableness (to the senses)." ], "tags": [ "uncountable" ] }, { "categories": [ "English countable nouns", "English terms with quotations" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1854, John Simon, Preface to Reports Relating to the Sanitary Condition of the City of London, London: John W. 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