Nasty and Opposing

Nasty

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

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

Nearby Word: nastily

Opposing

Opposing adjective - Characterized by active hostility.

Nasty and opposing are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Nasty" instead an adjective "Opposing".

Nearby Words: oppose, opposition, opposed

Mutual synonyms

Both words in one sentence

  • How Many Fingers? During the football game in M*A*S*H Duke and Hawkeye team up to take the opposing team's star player out of the game with a nasty double tackle.
  • A particularly nasty subversion comes when Bullseye goes up against 8-Ball during a Mob War when they're working for opposing crime lords.
  • After being pardoned by Mayor Quimby, he not only ran against him for the opposing party, but ran a rather nasty (as in slanderous) attack ad claiming Quimby was soft on crime, seeing as he had pardoned a convict who was twice convicted of attempted murder - Bob himself.
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