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Definition of Nastinesses
1. nastiness [n] - See also: nastiness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nastinesses
Literary usage of Nastinesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of English Literature by Henri Van Laun, Hippolyte Taine (1871)
"... details about the infernal cauldron, all the nastinesses which could haunt
the trivial imagination of a hideous and drivelling old woman, ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1849)
"... iho nastinesses common to the majority of his tribe. A nobleman in Austria,
he would have been accounted a gentleman, and a highly bred one, ..."
3. The Yellow Book by Fraser Harrison (1894)
"... the other day up the river—we'll have that, too ; so that we can run down
there from Saturday to Monday, to get away from London fog and nastinesses. ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1847)
"... or rather wrong, names ; the same dawdling over nastinesses which she practically
abhors, but has a Swift-like delight in describing. ..."
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