Sentence examples for seem nasty from inspiring English sources

And after Serena snapped at that foot-fault call, even insiders who sympathized said the incident conjured up a time when John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors made the men's game seem nasty.

"He already struck me as a bit unpleasant anyway, in a Stuart Broad sort of irritating way, but his rudeness to the Windies made him just seem nasty tosser".

Could make you seem nasty and could have the opposite effect.

It might seem nasty, but if you wash your hands, it's not as bad as it seems.

Although mucus may seem nasty and useless, it's incredibly important: it contains lots of helpful antibodies that are designed to prevent illness, and it doubles as a sort of flypaper that traps would-be intruders (bacteria) before they have time to fully get into your system.

In short, it has often seemed nasty: not a useful, stringent, purgatorial nastiness of the kind Mrs Thatcher administered.

BEN SISARIO AKON, T-PAIN (Saturday) Akon, the Senegalese-American hitmaker, makes his amorous R&B-pop songs explicit without seeming nasty.

This was Mr Cameron's original intuition: he realised that as long as they seemed nasty, the Tories would never get a fair hearing.That is why the recent scandal over vicious slurs concocted by Mr Brown's ex-henchman matters.

"This recession has been more brutal, the job losses steeper, politics seems nastier, Congress is more gridlocked than ever, some folks in the financial sector have been less than model citizens," he said.

So life was good and its nasty surprises didn't seem so nasty anymore.

But there are times – especially during our early days – when our attempts at exploration can seem as nasty and unhelpful as trying to shove a tiny camera down one's own throat.