Nasty and Piercing

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

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

Nearby Word: nastily

Piercing adjective - Causing intense discomfort to one's skin.

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Nasty and piercing are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Nasty" instead an adjective "Piercing".

Nearby Words: pierced, piercingly, piercer

Omar gets a nasty armor-piercing one from Bunk in Season 3:Omar: Shit, the way y'all look at it [a double murder] there ain't no victim at all.

Source: Series / The Wire
Depleted Phlebotinum Shells: armor piercing explosive rounds, meant for killing Cylons, do nasty things to relatively poorly protected Jaffa.

Source: Fanfic / Dust Of The Stars
Creepy Blue Eyes: Kat has a pair of piercing blues that the camera would focus heavily upon when she's being particularly nasty (or "villainous", if you will).

Source: Series / My Kitchen Rules

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