Nasty
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Nasty adjective – Having or showing a desire to cause someone pain or suffering for the sheer enjoyment of it. Usage example: made nasty comments about how ugly she was
Sympathetic is an antonym for nasty in bad-tempered topic.
Nearby Word: nastily
Antonyms for Nasty
Sympathetic
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Sympathetic adjective – Having or marked by sympathy and consideration for others. Usage example: sympathetic letters from supporters after the disappointing verdict
Nasty is an antonym for sympathetic.
Nearby Words: sympathy, sympathise, sympathetically, sympathizer, sympathiser
Antonyms for Sympathetic
Things that words describes
| person | nasty person | sympathetic person |
| character | nasty character | sympathetic character |
| man | nasty man | sympathetic man |
| woman | nasty woman | sympathetic woman |
| Other nouns: people, part, look, type, death, case, way, characters, personality, bit, villain, side, version, variant, examples. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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Even some villains who seem really nasty are revealed to have sympathetic qualities upon dying, such as Limstella.
Source: Video Game / Fire Emblem Elibe - Goodfellas: Henry Hill is a proud gangster who never kills anyone and is sympathetic through most of the film, but his associates and enemies are nasty customers.
Source: Black And Gray Morality / Film - He eventually became delusionally obsessed with her and started thinking she was his wife—a nasty change from his more sympathetic DCAU origin.
Source: Loving a Shadow
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Sympathetic and Nasty. (2016). Retrieved 2021, April 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/nasty/sympathetic
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