nastiness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nastiness
Noun
  • Slightly off-topic comments can derail it so far away from the original point, and it isn't always done with malice.
    Peter Suciu, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • To borrow another logical principle, Hanlon's razor: Don't ascribe to malice that which can be otherwise explained by rank incompetence.
    Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Chung also used a powerful MRI scanner to produce images of the octopuses’ brains and internal organs, discovering that the males had larger venom glands than females despite their smaller size.
    Jack Guy, CNN, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Once the venom wore off, the females merely forced the males away, with all six females surviving to lay their eggs.
    Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 12 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Lashing out from the White House, Mr. Trump used a vulgarity to accuse Mr. Xi and Mr. Lam of plotting to exploit the United States.
    Ann Scott Tyson, Christian Science Monitor, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Those incidents range from keying swastikas to spray-painting other vulgarities.
    Peter D'Abrosca, FOXNews.com, 12 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • An earnest, has-a-costume-for-everything kind of guy, Daub is allergic to the greige and the dinge.
    Sandra Upson, Wired, 18 Jan. 2021
  • Dinges said the two crewmembers whose sleep remained steady -- even in the absence of conventional daylight -- were those who kept to a strict schedule and found other ways to control their biological clocks.
    Michael Nedelman, CNN, 1 June 2017
Noun
  • That ecstatic communal experience is a glorious moment of freedom for oppressed people, most of them living hand-to-mouth in an environment of hatred and exploitation.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 10 Apr. 2025
  • In fact, her personal hatred of gripping challenges even served as her Survivor hot take below.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Woodland police detectives on Tuesday arrested Christian Jacobo, 22, on suspicion of murder and willful cruelty toward a child causing death, police officials said in a Friday news release.
    Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 11 Apr. 2025
  • But what’s even creepier is Remmick’s invitation to the holdouts to join them, promising an escape from dehumanizing cruelty into a fellowship that offers an eternal life of freedom and enlightenment.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In spite of that, Alexander said, intentional misinformation has been circulating that Anthony’s family had bought a new home with the funds raised and was living in luxury.
    Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Apr. 2025
  • As a result, in spite of the boycott all matches were well attended.
    Tim Genske, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
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