nastiness

noun nastinesses

1. uncountable Lack of cleanliness. They neither comb their Head, nor wash their Face, / But think their virtuous Nastiness a grace.
2. uncountable Dirt, filth. [T]he helliſh Noiſe, the Roaring, Svvearing, and Clamour, the Stench and Naſtineſs, and all the dreadful croud of Afflicting things that I ſavv there; joyn'd together to make the Place ſeem an Emblem of Hell itſelf, and a kind of an Entrance into it.
3. uncountable Indecency; corruption; unkindness, meanness, spite, harshness, cruelty. Among current novelists, Martin Amis lacks intellectual force but is well supplied with nastiness, which occasionally resembles humor.
4. uncountable Unpleasantness, disagreeableness (to the senses). Some medical beast had revived Tar-water in those days as a fine medicine, and Mrs. Joe always kept a supply of it in the cupboard; having a belief in its virtues correspondent to its nastiness.
5. countable A nasty action, object, quality, etc. (all senses of nasty). If we, who are educated, habitually submit to have copper in our preserves, red-lead in our cayenne, alum in our bread, pigments in our tea, and ineffable nastinesses in our fish-sauce, what can we expect of the poor?