To some, it carries nastily tribal, exclusive overtones.
GE borrowed more short-term money as interest rates fell, goes the theory, which leaves it nastily exposed to the market should rates rise again if what was really happening was unhedged betting.
Nastily, he asked the public to shop suspected illegal immigrants to the authorities.
Newspapers of the day inveighed, nastily, against what one called an "unnecessarily imported" crisis of "ethnic criminality".
And it talks nastily to Georgia and Azerbaijan about their supposed support for rebels across the border in Chechnya something both countries sharply deny.
And the Tories' main tax accusation still stands: that Labour has nastily burdened future generations of taxpayers with the cost of its own fiscal imprudence.Nasty guys finish lastThere are two ways to think about political nastiness and niceness.
Most central and eastern European countries have populist parties, some nastily racist.
Instead, in the years since, corruption scandals such as the one that blew up this week over coal allocations and a nastily divisive political climate have distracted everyone.Deferential Mr Singh, who might once have been expected to spearhead any reform efforts, turns 80 this year.
Hearing from dalits, who long sat at the bottom of the heap in nastily hierarchical villages, he learns that as more of them get a job, money or land, some of the old oppression is beginning visibly to lift.
Ruminating about his failed affairs, he lives alone in Marseilles, comforted by a few ill-sorted friends, who are nastily stalked by a mobster baddie eager to locate Babette (and surprisingly ignorant when it comes to disk-copying)."Solea" reads as if it yearns to be a film.
Indeed, half-hearted human-rights diplomacy can backfire nastily.
