His hands, too, were an index to a nasty character.
For Bowie himself, The Duke was "a nasty character indeed".
It was never revealed throughout the series how Cotton became such a nasty, rude, evil character, or if he ever was a different person.
Audiences disliked the idea of Shirley as a nasty character needing to learn a lesson.
To call Joshua - one of the nastiest characters in recent science fiction - immoral is like calling the sun hot.
According to an author's note, originally she was conceived as a much nastier character with a "persecution complex".
So did the Unseleighe, the efrits, and a lot of other nasty characters.
And obviously feelings fun very high - Gaddafi was a particularly nasty character.
It was done with great nostalgia; even the smallest, nastiest characters were in some way huggable.
Murder, extortion, smuggling, endangering the station - a nasty character.