Common collocations with nasty in American Collocation

The boys were being cheeky, rather than downright nasty.

I cannot help feeling that this must have been a particularly nasty way to die.

It left a rather nasty brown stain.

Some of them are likely to be in for a nasty surprise.

It was a nasty business from any point of view.

He still winces as he recalls that nasty moment.

There was a nasty smell in the building which no one had ever been able to identify.

My daughter now takes half a tablet instead and prefers this as there is no nasty taste.

She’d had a nasty experience the day before.

A nasty noise started coming from the gearbox.

She made a really nasty comment about his wife.

John shouts after Ken, “You’re a nasty little man!”

She is a throughly nasty piece of work.

She decided it was time to play a nasty trick on him after what he did last week.

There is a nasty, vicious side to him.

He suffered a nasty injury to his leg.

It’s a very nasty disease you don’t want to get.

Toby has a nasty accident in the kitchen.

We are constantly bombarded with information about the nasty effects of climate change.

It caused a very nasty problem for the government.

She thought she had a nasty case of flu.

I had an experience which, in retrospect, could have turned very nasty indeed.