Nasty vs Smeared - What's the difference?
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*2006 , Marie Fontaine, The Chronicles of my Ghetto Street Volume One , p. 156:
*:I really don't have any friends at school Mama Mia. They talk about me all the time. They say my hair's nappy and my clothes are nasty .
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Contemptible, unpleasant (of a person).
*1897 , (Bram Stoker), Dracula :
*:Jonathan kept staring at him, till I was afraid he would notice. I feared he might take it ill, he looked so fierce and nasty .
Objectionable, unpleasant (of a thing); repellent, offensive.
*1838 , (Charles Dickens), Oliver Twist :
*:‘It's a nasty trade,’ said Mr. Limbkins, when Gamfield had again stated his wish.
Indecent or offensive; obscene, lewd.
*1933 , (Dorothy L Sayers), Murder Must Advertise :
*:He said to Mr. Tallboy he thought the headline was a bit hot. And Mr. Tallboy said he had a nasty mind.
*2009 , Okera H, Be Your Priority, Not His Option , Mill City Press 2009, p. 45:
*:We want threesomes, blowjobs, and orgies. That's just the way it is. We want the good girl who's nasty in bed.
Spiteful, unkind.
*2012 , The Guardian , 3 Jun 2012:
*:She had said: "I love the block button on Twitter. I don't know how people expect to send a nasty comment and not get blocked."
*2007 , The Observer , 5 Aug 2007:
*:There was a nasty period during the First World War when the family's allegiance was called into question - not least because one of the Schroders had been made a baron by the Kaiser.
*2012 , James Ball, The Guardian , 2 Mar 2012:
*:Moving into the middle ages, William the Conqueror managed to rout the English and rule the country, then see off numerous plots and assassination attempts, before his horse did for him in a nasty fall, killing him at 60.
(lb) Something nasty.
Sexual intercourse.
(smear)
To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing.
To have a substance smeared on (a surface).
To damage someone's reputation by slandering, misrepresenting, or otherwise making false accusations about an individual, their statements, or their actions.
To become spread by smearing.
To climb without using footholds, using the friction from the shoe to stay on the wall.
A mark made by smearing.
(medicine) A Pap smear.
A false attack.
A maneuver in which the shoe is placed onto the holdless rock, and the friction from the shoe keeps it in contact
A rough glissando in jazz music.
Nasty is a related term of smeared.
As an adjective nasty
is .As a noun nasty
is (lb) something nasty.As a verb smeared is
(smear).nasty
English
Adjective
(er)citation, passage=But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty , brutish and short.}}
Noun
(nasties)- Processed foods are full of aspartame and other nasties .
- This video game involves flying through a maze zapping various nasties .
Derived terms
* do the nasty * nastygram * video nastyAnagrams
* (l), (l), (l)smeared
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*smear
English
Verb
(en verb)- The artist smeared paint over the canvas in broad strokes.
- She smeared her lips with lipstick.
- ''The opposition party attempted to smear the candidate by spreading incorrect and unverifiable rumors about their personal behavior.
- The paint is still wet — don't touch it or it will smear .
Synonyms
* spread * (have a substance smeared on) coat, cover, layerDerived terms
* smearerNoun
(en noun)- This detergent cleans windows without leaving smears .
- I'm going to the doctor's this afternoon for a smear .