Little
Little adjective - Having relatively little height.
Nasty and little are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Nasty" instead an adjective "Little".
Nearby Word: littleness
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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A rather nasty subversion happens in the Space Runaway Ideon movie, where a little girl named Ashura dies by being shot in the head... but since she was shot with a bazooka, her head vaporizes.
Source: Pretty Little Headshots -
It doesn't help that, once Nellie Oleson tells the other girls why Eliza Jane hates her name, Laura's friend Ida writes (with a little editing help from Laura) a nasty but humorously catchy limerick about it that half the little boys memorize and then sing loudly through the entire town.
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Tyler, stunned by what just happened, exhales a little smoke but a later camera angle reveals a fairly nasty exit wound before he keels over.
Source: Pretty Little Headshots
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Nasty and Little. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 31, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/little/nasty
Little & Nasty. N.p., 2016. Web. 31 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/little/nasty>.
Nasty or Little. 2016. Accessed July 31, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/little/nasty.
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