These pickles, however, had a distinctly nasty "metallic" flavor.

Probably he or his ancestors have found it pay as a protection; for no jaguar or tiger-cat, it is to be presumed, would care to meddle with anything so exquisitely nasty, especially when it is all over sharp prickles.

Their outlook towards a venomous German attempt to do something "frightfully" nasty, is very similar to a large and powerful nurse dealing with a fractious childsort of: "Now, then, Master Frankie, you mustn't kick and scream like that.

There is something peculiarly nasty about the nature of Indian trains.

She turned toward Charteris, and the reassuring smile with which he greeted her, impressed Patricia as being singularly nasty.