Sentence examples for overly nasty from inspiring English sources

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The judges were overly nasty I thought.

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Too nasty to Browner?

Part of the excitement about her gold medal, several skaters said, was because Hughes does not fit the stereotype of the overly competitive and sometimes nasty figure skater.

"I said, 'I don't exactly have a boyfriend, but I've been seeing someone for four years now.' She was very polite about it, not nasty or overly inquisitive, and she said, 'Well, whatever makes you happy.' " It helps, experts say, that people who have come out so far are already well established in their careers and respected by their colleagues.

Nasty-neat: overly tidy.

While they didn't seem too happy about having spent the night locked in the back of a sweaty van and missing the World Cup final, they didn't seem overly concerned about things turning nasty.

There's "nasty-neat", meaning overly tidy, or "sewing needle", which is a description for a dragonfly in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Massachusetts – because "folklore says that it would sew up one's eyes and mouth (or fingers and toes) if one fell asleep outside".

That's just human nature -- nobody wants to be around a nasty or impatient or overly sensitive person who takes everything the wrong way.

Trump, who has for months been the frontrunner in an average of national polls of Republicans, accused TV executives of seeking to profit from overly long debates and blasted what he claimed were "nasty and ridiculous" questions.

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Overly harsh?

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