nastiness noun5 •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. — 1995 •A nasty action, object, quality, etc. (all senses of nasty).[…] imagine the delights of bathing when the Baths were open to public view, the said public delighting to throw dead cats, offal, and all manner of nastinesses among the bathers! — 1899 •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. — 1860 •Lack of cleanliness.They neither comb their Head, nor wash their Face, / But think their virtuous Nastiness a grace. — 1684 •Dirt, filth. formsnastinesses