Sentence examples for of being nasty from inspiring English sources

That would have been fine, but the Flint River had a reputation of being nasty.

"That is what we thought the character was based on until, twenty years later, we were accused of being nasty about people with bad eyesight," he said.

The Dursleys had a streak of being nasty, Petunia was always very mean towards Lily, and they both treated James with contempt.

Trump, as he has tended to during his brief political career, took Cruz's comments personally and on Saturday morning responded via Twitter, decrying Cruz's "poor leadership" and accusing her of being "nasty to Trump".

They ranged from two deputy mayors accused of being nasty landlords to the stepdaughter of another deputy mayor and an investigator employed by a law firm that contributed to Mr. Schundler's campaign.

When Frankie Boyle, a Scottish comedian who has made a career out of being nasty, made a joke on a panel show about Adlington's appearance, it prompted public outrage, a formal complaint by the swimmer, and a reprimand from the BBC Trust.

I don't think it is a choice of having to being nasty or nice.

But the most egregious expressions of insecurity on the site, of course, are nasty comments.

Life in a state of nature is nasty, brutish, and short not because of a primal thirst for blood but because of the inescapable logic of anarchy.

The meat, all one-half ounce of it, was nasty.

That life had been short, and quite a bit of it was nasty and brutal.