Example sentences for: nastiness

How can you use “nastiness” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Actually, much of the verbal nastiness in the film is not expressed by nasty terms but by the tone of voice, facial expressions, body language, and other paralingual means.

  • The winning campaign Santorum ran was notable for its uncalled-for personal nastiness.

  • "Instead of Wanda 's delicious anti-PC nastiness (flattened lapdogs, stuttering jokes) and bawdy high-spiritedness, Fierce piles on sight gags as crass commercialism runs amok in the zoo," says the USA Today's Susan Wloszczyna.

  • Add to this mix "she unzipped their flies like there was no tomorrow," and you get some idea of the challenge faced by software manufacturers hawking filters to protect children from the nastiness on the Web.

  • The closest we've come to a great moment of unpremeditated nastiness during a debate was Lloyd Bentsen's "You're no Jack Kennedy" line, and that has at least three caveats: First, it was during a vice-presidential debate.


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