Sentence:  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 <WSD>nastinesses</WSD> in our fish-sauce, what can we expect of the poor? 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A nasty action, object, quality, etc. ("all senses of" nasty).