Crossword-Solution: NESTY 5 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

There’s no a hair on ayther o’ the Weirs that hasna mair spunk and dirdum to it than what he has in his hale dwaibly body! Settin’ up his snash to me! Let him gang to the black toon where he’s mebbe wantit—birling in a curricle—wi’ pimatum on his heid—making a mess o’ himsel’ wi’ nesty hizzies—a fair disgrace!” It was impossible to hear without admiration Kirstie’s graduated disgust, as she brought forth, one after another, these somewhat baseless charges.

There's ower mony nesty imps o' boys, rinnin' an' cloddin' stanes at puir Jock, forby caa'in' him names.

There's muckle loons there that micht snap up a guid-lookin' lad like Jock, an' ship him ontill their nesty ships afore he could cry 'Mulquarchar and Craignell!' Jock Gordon may be a fule, but he kens when he's weel aff.

Yersel' is't? Imphm! Man that's bad! A kin' o' thinness o' the blude? Gaed aff las' nicht intil a dwam? Keep's a'! But that's rale nesty, Tam! An' lossin' taste noo for the dram? (An' may it dae ye muckle gude!) Noo! See the libel! "Thrice a day A tablespunefu' efter food." Drogues is nae better than they're ca'ed? Some drumlie-like? Losh! ye're a lad! The taste'll be byordnar' bad? (An' may it dae ye muckle gude!) Weel, here's your mixtur'-auchteen pence, I'd mak' it cheaper gin I could.

There was a nesty plook cam' oot juist abune his lug on Setarday, an' he cudna get on his lum hat; so he had to bide at hame a' Sabbath, an' he spent the feck o' the day i' the hoose readin' Tammas Boston's "Power-fold State" an' the "Pilgrim's Progress." Ye see, Sandy's a bit o' a theologian aye when he's onweel.