nasty thing
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnastyandthing
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nasty
adjective
uk/ˈnɑː.sti/us/ˈnæs.ti/
bad or ...
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thing
noun
uk/θɪŋ/us/θɪŋ/
used to refer in an approximate way to an object or to avoid ...
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(Definition ofnastyandthingfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It could be a verynastythingfor the rest of the world.
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I said that that was a pompous,nastythingto say, that is all.
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There is anastythingcalled sterling credits.
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It is anastythingto lose a finger, but, in the ordinary way, not serious.
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The members have explained to me that there real object is to make the smoking of cigarettes seem to be anastythingto do.
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Nevertheless, judges want this not as a brutal andnastythingto do but as a helpful and constructive measure both for the sentencer and for society.
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I shall no doubt be accused of preaching or moralising, which is supposedly anastythingto do.
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The terror is anastything.
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We must all share the blame that such a distasteful andnastythingshould have happened at all.
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I know that this is anastythingto say, but there are real problems when many leaders are drugged by publicity.
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It is such anastything.
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We should be put in the dock; and would that not be rather anastythingto happen to us?
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Victimisation is a verynastything.
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There is, moreover, such a thing as anxiety neurosis, a verynastythingfrom which to suffer.
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The second argument is the argument from nasty things.
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Nonne did nasty things to his patients.
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Personalities are involved and nasty things have been said one about the other.
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Therefore, because they are different these nasty things can be imposed on them.
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Sometimes one must say nice things about nasty people, and sometimes nasty things about nice people.
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