Grating and Nasty

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Grating adjective - Disagreeable to one's aesthetic or artistic sense.

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

Nearby Words: grate, grated, gratingly, grater

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

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

Nearby Word: nastily

This, coupled with a lot of erroneous remarks involving game systems being "just hard drives with games on them", as well as a couple of rather nasty implications about gamers being losers, leads to a very grating episode.

Source: Pac-Man Fever
This track eventually fades down, you think, "well, what a nice if bland little tune"...and THEN, you're suddenly hit with a discordant, teeth-grating, violin/synthesiser sting that sounds like an evil extra-terrestrial has taken control of your stereo. Nasty.

Source: Last Note Nightmare

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