They think a punishment is something nasty.

And when it happens, it's bad, it's nasty.

You think it's something painful, or scary, or nasty.

It turned nasty, and I'm a bit of a chicken.

It does not have to be nasty, scary or painful.

There was a nasty biography written about you by someone.

It looks nasty, like in college when you didn't like statistics.

She gives me a nasty look every time she sees me.

Crocodiles, of course, and that's a nasty one we haven't named yet.

At that point, we'll start romanticizing the future again, instead of the nasty, brutish past.

So that's another way in which something that is quite positive can have a nasty kickback.

Then, being her husband, I ran behind her and saw she had a nasty rag cloth.

Regardless how many times I try to solve this nasty problem, I always end up failing.

In microbiology you really don't want to get a symmetrical object, because they are generally rather nasty.

Arunachalam Muruganantham The thing I saw in my wife's hand, Why are you using that nasty cloth?

And before long, our bodies were covered head to toe with these nasty wounds inflicted by the terrified penguins.

This is a flower that really, really smells pretty nasty and is designed, again, evolved, to look like carrion.

And now what I did there is, I was being nasty, I just turned up the heat again and again.

And you see that over the last four days, he said, calling the Democrats angry and mean and nasty and untruthful.

They say, Well, it's got to be something that's nasty enough that people don't want to be hit with this weapon.

There's no dinosaurs yet just this slow, saurian, scaly, nasty, swampy place with a couple of tiny mammals hiding in the fringes.

And so as soon as I saw this drop into my inbox, I dispatched it hastily to the recycle bin and spared myself a very nasty infection.

It's time to pay attention to Bosnia again, if we don't want things to get nasty very quickly. By now, the entire world knows the price of that.

The confrontation between Greece and Germany has been particularly nasty. Mutual accusations reached a level unworthy of the common history and the close personal, cultural and economic ties between both countries.

But if it could occur in just a few years, then it might be a very important way to control some of the nasty problems that we haven't been able to control.

I couldn't resist, and I got a nasty email from some environmental group saying, This is too serious and solemn to make fun of. You should be ashamed, please apologize on our website.

The logic seemed clear suppress the asymptomatic but nasty looking arrhythmias, and you will reduce sudden death. Unfortunately, when investigators undertook randomized trials, they found that treated patients had a higher death rate.

And what I hope to show is that unpicking dodgy claims, unpicking the evidence behind dodgy claims, isn't a kind of nasty carping activity it's socially useful, but it's also an extremely valuable explanatory tool.

The notion is that it's going to transport you, and the story is not about, you know, the guy in front of you in the airplane, who has this nasty little kid, or the big cough.

Speaking at a rally in West Virginia, the president did not directly address the testimony given by Ford before the Senate Judiciary Committee, instead commenting that what was going on in the Senate showed that people were mean and nasty and untruthful.

The one thing that could happen and the beautiful thing that is going on over the last few days in the Senate, when you see the anger, when you see people that are angry and mean and nasty and untruthful, he said.

The longer energy prices remain at their current lofty levels, the greater the probability that inflationary expectations will increase and that second round effects will materialize. Further procrastination on interest rate normalization by the ECB could well lead to a nasty bout of inflation.

Many Western economies must deal with the nasty legacy of years of excessive borrowing and leveraging those, like Germany, that do not have this problem are linked to neighbors that do. Faced with this reality, different countries will opt for different de leveraging options.

So, I don't really have time to talk about those things, but I did want to put them up there, just to give you a sense that there really are solutions to controlling the evolution of harmfulness of some of the nasty pathogens that we're confronted with.

Most people in the US know that if you talk back to the police, they will get nasty very fast. The fact that the man was black might or might not have made the cop go for his handcuffs even sooner than he might normally have done.

The share of countries recording outright deflation in consumer prices (the green line) is higher in 2015 than that of countries experiencing double digit inflation (7 of the total). Whatever nasty surprises may lurk in the future, the global inflation environment is the tamest since the early 1960s.

So far, programs for the eurozone periphery have been spearheaded and largely financed by European governments, with the IMF contributing financially, but mainly acting as an external consultant the third party that tells the client the nasty bits while everyone else in the room stares at their shoes.

Even if countries avoid the immediate blow of a dollar collapse, they still have to watch for a boomerang effect. Exchange rates have a nasty habit of overshooting their equilibrium values, then knifing back on countries, especially those who have been spending too much based on inflated income valuations.

The question of whether to meet with nasty but powerful people has dogged diplomacy since its inception, and both ends of the question have been argued endlessly and inconclusively. So it is probably best to examine the merits of each case separately, looking to precedents and agendas for guidance.

In order to avert a likely depression, governments around the world engaged in fiscal and monetary stimulus in the midst of the global financial crisis. They succeeded in offsetting nasty economic dislocations caused by private sector deleveraging, but at the cost of encumbering their fiscal balances and their central banks balance sheets.

It's a beautiful idea. The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you'll also, by implication, and in a far more nasty way, believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there.

Anti Zionism takes a nasty turn to anti Semitism when it conflates Jews with Israelis for example, when the British Liberal Democratic politician David Ward criticized the Jews for inflicting horrors on the Palestinians. And, while one can be skeptical about Zionism as a historical project, to deny Israel s right to exist is hard to distinguish from anti Semitism.

The American government, too, is betting on muddling through the Fed s measures and government guarantees mean that banks have access to low cost funds, and lending rates are high. If nothing nasty happens losses on mortgages, commercial real estate, business loans, and credit cards the banks might just be able to make it through without another crisis.

That some would now question whether the humanities have any impact at all merely reflects the crude and short sighted way in which the value of academic knowledge is measured and judged today. Perhaps that befits creatures whose lives are solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short, to recall Thomas Hobbes description of the state of nature.

First, while Scottish nationalism has many honorable roots and aspirations, the campaign and its incubation showed a nasty tinge of chauvinism and an occasionally brutish hostility toward pluralism, reflected, for example, in the intimidation of some journalists. Overall, the English took on the role of what philosophers and social scientists call the other, an alien threatening force, in the pro independence campaign.