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.

  • A New York chef reveals the nastiness inside upscale restaurant kitchens: old fish, grimy meat, and rivers of butter.

  • The script, by Pamela Gray ( A Walk on the Moon ), has her students complain of her nastiness and perfectionism, but Streep--who has made herself look dumpy, thick-waisted, and bedraggled--is so busy telegraphing her vulnerability that all we get is dippy niceness.

  • 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.

  • With no common program and no forceful or even universally acceptable leader, factions assert themselves with growing nastiness.


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