English Dictionary

nastiness

名詞

不可算名詞 可算名詞

(uncountable) Lack of cleanliness. / (uncountable) Dirt, filth. / (uncountable) Indecency; corruption; unkindness, meanness, spite, harshness, cruelty.

日本語の意味

不潔さ、清潔でない状態 / 汚れ、埃、または不浄なもの / 卑劣さ、意地悪さ、残酷さ

The nastiness in the kitchen made me hesitant to eat there.

キッチンの不潔さが気になって、そこで食事をするのをためらった。

意味（1）

(uncountable) Lack of cleanliness.

They neither comb their Head, nor wash their Face, But think their virtuous Nastiness a grace.

意味（2）

(uncountable) Dirt, filth.

[…] the hellish Noise, the Roaring, Swearing, and Clamour, the Stench and Nastiness and all the dreadful Crowd of afflicting Things that I saw there, joined together to make the Place seem an Emblem of Hell itself, and a Kind of entrance into it.

意味（3）

(uncountable) Indecency; corruption; unkindness, meanness, spite, harshness, cruelty.

Among current novelists, Martin Amis lacks intellectual force but is well supplied with nastiness, which occasionally resembles humor.

意味（4）

(uncountable) Unpleasantness, disagreeableness (to the senses).

Some medical beast had revived Tar-water in those days as a fine medicine, and Mrs. Joe always kept a supply of it in the cupboard; having a belief in its virtues correspondent to its nastiness.

意味（5）

(countable) A nasty action, object, quality, etc. (all senses of nasty).

If we, who are educated, habitually submit to have copper in our preserves, red-lead in our cayenne, alum in our bread, pigments in our tea, and ineffable nastinesses in our fish-sauce, what can we expect of the poor?

nastinesses （ plural ）