Sounds nasty if it's happening all over the place.

You can say something like that and it doesn't sound nasty.

I gave her the last shot right in the teeth and it sounded pretty nasty.

It may sound nasty but a man would never look at some of those women she said.

Alvin had never heard the word exploit before, but it sounded nasty.

He didn't mean the question to sound nasty, but it came out that way.

These pirates, about whom nobody would say much, sounded increasingly nasty.

On the other hand, the courier job sounded nasty, too.

He was trying to sound nasty and sarcastic, but I wasn't fooled.

I admitted that it sounded pretty nasty, and asked him why his folks hadn't used this stuff on the other families.