Destructive and Nasty

Destructive

Destructive adjective - Causing or tending to cause destruction.

Nasty and destructive are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Nasty" instead an adjective "Destructive".

Nasty

Nasty adjective - Arousing or deserving of one's loathing and disgust.

Destructive and nasty are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Destructive" instead an adjective "Nasty".

Nearby Word: nastily

Both words in one sentence

  • Child Prodigy: Some rather nasty examples with Su and Sarah, the former is a mechanical genius who builds destructive machines and the latter is a skilled fighter and uses this to bully others.
  • Mad Bomber The perk lets you make bombs out of tin cans, more efficient versions of mines you already have, more destructive versions of time bombs, cheap grenades from laser gun batteries and nasty, radioactive tincan bombs that use Nuka-Cola as fissile material.
    Source: Mad Bomber
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