nastinessn.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Souillarderie, sluttishnesse, nastinesse, greasinesse.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. ii. v. 110 Through their owne nastinesse & sluttishnesse,..suffer their aire to putrifie.

1679 W. Penn Addr. Protestants (1692) ii. 201 The..Tedious Imprisonments, even to Death it self, through nastiness of Dungeons.

1719 J. T. Philipps tr. B. Ziegenbalg Thirty-four Confer. 324 Spitting in your Houses, and some other daily Nastinesses committed by you.

1737 L. Clarke Compl. Hist. Bible I. i. 104 That which increas'd his Misery was the Nastiness of his Distemper, which render'd him..loathsome to others.

1767 R. Bentley Philodamus iv. ii. 43 A trough for swine to gorge at, where they swill, To surfeiting in noise and nastiness.

1803 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (new ed.) i. iv. 33 All voyagers agree with respect to the filth of the habitations, and the personal nastiness of the people.

1863 Harper's Mag. May 801/1 There is a population of exactly sixty-one thousand millions of fleas who are to get their living from the dirt, carelessness, indolence, and nastiness of the Roosky.

1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 8 Apr. Nastiness and malodorousness laid on thickly as with a trowel.

1938 R. Graves Coll. Poems 96 This house is jealous of its nastiness.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Souillure, soyle, filth, nastinesse.

1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ ii. viii. 9 Here one shall see nor dog, nor cat, nor cage, to cause any nastines within the body of the House.

1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 30 They are not subject to that filth and nastiness which breed among our Hair, if we be not careful to comb it well.

a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 9 The Houses were all fill'd with Dirt and Nastiness.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iv. vii. 266 Another thing he wondered at in the Yahoos, was their strange Disposition to Nastiness and Dirt, whereas there appears to be a natural love of Cleanliness in all other Animals.

1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 219 When the Snake is killed, it must first be washed clean, and freed from all filth and nastiness.

1808 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 19 570 Where nastiness of every description, and putridity in its most loathsome forms, are to be found.

1823 J. Neal Seventy-six II. xii. 202 Remember who used to starve us, while we were prisoners; and, curse us, and beat us; and, leave us rotting in filth and nastiness, with bread full of pounded glass, and maggotty meat.

1845 Spectator 6 Dec. 1168/1 The first thing, of course, to be done at New York was to land; and the author found the celebrated Battery Point as bad as our Blackfriars Puddle Dock for filth and nastiness.

1907 H. Belloc Franklin Hyde in Cautionary Tales for Children 32 Pass your Leisure Time In Cleanly Merriment, and turn From Mud and Oose and Slime And every form of Nastiness.

1954 V. Randolph Pissing in Snow (1976) xci. 134 Fetch the dishrag, and wipe that young-un's ass. If there's one thing I can't stand, it's nastiness!

1990 N. Payne Grenadian Childhood 191 All he doing was [sic] rubbing himself with the same old stinking nastiness, making the whole house smell like obeah shop.

1718 T. Gordon Ded. to Great Man 20 When a chattering Booby finds himself loaded with a turbulent Quantity of Words and Wind,..I must be oblig'd to stand the Shot of his Noise and Nastiness for perhaps an Hour or two together.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. xv. 295 The Hottentots..are a nasty People, but their Nastiness is mostly without, whereas in France..it is all within, and makes them stink much more to my reason than that of Hottentots does to my nose. View more context for this quotation

1863 A. Trollope Rachel Ray II. xii. 248 It is all a bore, trouble, ennui, nastiness, and discomfort.

1888 Macmillan's Mag. Sept. 375/1 She has not yet learnt a man's sublime indifference to the petty whims, tempers and ‘nastinesses’ of ‘the Governor’.

1936 R. Lehmann Weather in Streets ii. 48 He developed my nastiness from a mere seed into a great jungle.

1955 J. P. Donleavy Ginger Man xii. 114 ‘Don't get snotty.’ ‘I'll be as snotty as I want. I no longer have to tolerate your nastiness.’

1984 P. Larkin Let. 14 Nov. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 724 Viral infections seem to cover a multitude of nastinesses these days.

2001 Hull Daily Mail (Electronic ed.) 27 Apr. It is the more whimsical moments in the movie..that help The Mexican to nicely straddle that fine line which separates black humour from downright nastiness.

1831 Examiner 290/1 The yerk of the third bottle of hot nastiness [sc. port].

1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock (1861) 43 Snowy lump-sugar has been refined by means of unutterable nastinesses of a sanguineous nature.

1867 Harper's Mag. Oct. 608/2 There were no greasy nastinesses of stews.

1904 H. James Golden Bowl iii. v. 303 I've lunched, on some strange nastiness, at a cookshop in Holborn.

1868 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 264 That quality of unmitigated nastiness which so familiarly attests the genuineness of our Western doses.

1873 A. Trollope Eustace Diamonds III. lxxvi. 296 He went into the refreshment-room, growled at the heat of the tea, and the abominable nastiness of the food provided.

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 627 Such sense of taste as remains is only capable of perceiving a bitter nastiness.

1955 G. Grigson Englishman's Flora 409 Crow Garlic can give a garlic nastiness to milk and butter simply if the cows inhale the vaporized substances it gives off.

1971 A. Young There is Sadness in Song turning back into Itself 82 There is a grimness A nastiness in the throat A foulness of breath.

2001 Guardian 10 Aug. (G2 section) 7/3 Thrusting one's buttery knife in the Marmite is a putrid error, leading to widespread nastiness.