How To Use Nefarious In A Sentence

Assuming that I don't have some sort of malignant brain tumor *knocks wood furiously*, it must be that this alien life-form, this adorable-but-nonetheless-parasitic superbeing, is sucking every nutrient from my body and turning these to his own nefarious supergrowth purposes. Pass The Smelling Salts
Nowadays, partisans on one side of the aisle mercilessly assail their opponents as nefarious ideologues bent on the destruction of the nation, while claiming the sacred mantle of the Founding Fathers as exclusively their own. Morgan Pehme: Strip Politics: A Cure for Incivility
Each country thinks independence is the cat's paw of the other: a cosmetic cover for nefarious designs.
nefariously involved in a conspiracy
This nefarious act stoked his interest. Earthly Powers: Religion and Politics in Europe from the Enlightenment to the Great War

This nefarious act stoked his interest. Earthly Powers: Religion and Politics in Europe from the Enlightenment to the Great War
The director of the company seems to have been involved in some nefarious practices/activities.
But it did set up an intriguing beginning to the show's ninth season in the fall, one which says nefarious things about our national security apparat. William Bradley: NCIS: America's Favorite Show and What It Tells Us
No wonder British journalists resort to nefarious means to get information that in other countries is freely available. Times, Sunday Times
Also I was told that wizards keep ghosts for their nefarious activities.
As Elizabeth's cofferer, Bedingfield despaired that he was unable to "avoyde by enye possible mene, butte that daylye & howerlye the sayde Parye maye have & gyve intelligence" on nefarious "enterprises" both to and from Elizabeth by virtue of his necessary daily contact with his mistress. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
The most nefarious creature around was a sullen old billy with evil yellow eyes. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
One of the adults turns out to be a kindly retired policeman, a little doddy, who knows that something nefarious is afoot but no one else believes him. UncleBear
She was also known for her escapades as a spy and for her various other nefarious activities.
He has taken a noble and high-sounding Fijian name and dragged it in the dirt to suit his nefarious purposes. THE FEATHERS OF THE SUN
Or had the man with a cough, for his own nefarious purposes, mesmerised or hypnotised me, and to some extent succeeded?
He's a wily, nefarious skunk, is what he is, gang.
Not contented with his bargain, the chapman attempted to _underlet_ to another speculator, the liberty of showing him, and poor Cotter resisting this nefarious transaction, was saddled with a fictitious debt, and thrown into a spunging house in The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 567, September 22, 1832
I run into some nefarious character, I don't even want to mention his name, who introduces me to Madam Alex.
In doing so she noticed the half written text totally incriminating him and his nefarious activities.
If readers thought that was a nefarious scheme, I apologize for any infliction it may have caused.
Telling the simultaneous (and startlingly parallel) stories ofthe legendary architect of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and one of the nineteenth century's most nefarious serial killers, this thrilling and meticulously researched book is as suspenseful as any fictive whodunit. Possibly We Got A Little Carried Away With Our Holiday Gift Recommendations
Critics say there are nefarious forces at work: financial speculators. Times, Sunday Times
It is supported in its nefarious activities by a popular press acting as piranhas voraciously feeding on the shreds that remain.
If somebody did shuffle nefariously off the mortal coil in this film, they did so in a way that escaped my notice completely.
Steps have been taken in England to improve player awareness of nefarious approaches after recent high-profile cases. Times, Sunday Times
If folks know that the media are in cahoots with the cops, then surely they'll deliver a solid beating to anyone recording their nefarious deeds.
Perhaps he also means nefarious. Times, Sunday Times
Experience Capcom's classic platformer on mobile. Control Mega Man and his dog, Rush, on an epic journey to defeat the nefarious Dr. Wily and his deadly robot masters.
This flight of capital is not some nefarious capitalist plot to thwart the will of the people. Times, Sunday Times
Nefarious tactics such as keeping wet landing nets or weigh slings out of sight might come into play.
Richardson pits this code explicitly against Matilda's nefarious campaign to sign Gerald on as her personal mercenary.
They are also nefarious because they add to our own discontentment. Times, Sunday Times
And in some cases, we had folks from out of state who were coming into Utah, getting a Utah driver's license and using it nefariously for identification purposes.
Claire and Ray are spies, but their targets aren't Cold War style feuding nations, but back-stabbingly nefarious multi-national corporations, battling over a secret formula for a household product that could change the world and reap billions for the winner. Movie City News
They are the most nefarious villains of all because their purpose is never clear.
So far am I from forbidding these officially to check the undue license of kings, that if they connive at kings when they tyrannise and insult over the humbler of the people, I affirm that their dissimulation is not free from nefarious perfidy, because they fraudulently betray the liberty of the people, while knowing that, by the ordinance of God, they are its appointed guardians. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Stamp Act
Why make a whole village prisoner if it was not to some nefarious purpose?
Steps have been taken in England to improve player awareness of nefarious approaches after recent high-profile cases. Times, Sunday Times
All this does is make celebrities out of these crooks and encourages them to continue with their nefarious activities.
Meanwhile the poachers had time to gather up their nets and other implements used in the pursuit of their nefarious occupation.
Why make a whole village prisoner if it was not to some nefarious purpose?
Kelly, a whistleblower who the government would naturally have despised, was elevated to the role of a honourable man whom Gilligan had supposedly ill-used to further his nefarious anti-government agenda.
He was rumbled for the nefarious practice of producing cards from a pack concealed on his person.
May 31, 2007 -- It could be nefarious dognapper, or just a hungry coyote. Yorkie Napping
I was watching you from my balcony after you took leave of my chambers; I saw a young man jump out, rather nefariously, I must say, from the trees and decided to make sure you had no need of my aid.
Rumours abounded of nefarious plots to cause mayhem in Istanbul itself. Earthly Powers: Religion and Politics in Europe from the Enlightenment to the Great War
I don't know if this was because she was just trying to be unobtrusive, or if she thought we were up to some nefarious activity.
They haven't reckoned with the intervention of the French wine Mafia, who kidnap the kid for nefarious purposes.
Here, huddled together in confused, hopeless misery and ruin, lie, fettered and prostrate, even priest as well as potentate, undistinguishable victims of crude, unblenching violence, with its climax of nefarious sacrilege. West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas
It was just a rock known for nefarious activities that took place there.
I feel just as strongly about his candidacy this year, especially since his opponent is the nefarious Nathan Deal. Kimberly Krautter: I Was a Victim of Voter Fraud! Required ID Is No Safeguard
Concerned good citizens who think they may have discovered some nefarious doings should email the anti piracy team here.
Hear what our Saviour says on this subject; "it must needs be that offences come, but _woe unto that man through whom they come_" -- Witness some fulfillment of this declaration in the tremendous destruction of Jerusalem, occasioned by that most nefarious of all crimes the crucifixion of the Son of God. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
Wayne is a wounded gunslinger helping old friend Mitchum, an alcoholic sheriff, battle a nefarious cattle baron.
The powerful amulet of Samarkand, which is usually in the safekeeping of the government, is purloined by the wicked Lovelace, who, naturally, wants to use it for his own nefarious purposes.
This flight of capital is not some nefarious capitalist plot to thwart the will of the people. Times, Sunday Times
To avoid this nefarious post-conflict infection trap, treatment programs must be paired with commensurate prevention efforts that address epidemic drivers, including concurrent multiple sexual partnerships, long-term discordant couples (where one partner is infected and the other uninfected), and early sexual debut. Peter Navario: Zimbabwe's Second Wave?
It is quite another and much more nefarious to say that he knew what the evidence was but he turned it in his favor, as one would consider when one uses words like "railroading" suspects in this case, which is what they're saying in this case and is the reason that he should be disbarred. CNN Transcript Jun 16, 2007
For all the speculation about the evil that goes on in these organizations, all of which pledge their members to secrecy, I can assure you nothing nefarious occurs.
Sport has a history of being used for nefarious purposes. Times, Sunday Times
The problem, as i have argued on many occasions, is not inherent to religion itself, but rather the people using religion as an excuse to forward their own nefarious goals. Richard dawkins on why he\’s against religion | My[confined]Space
One of them is a former carnival magician, the nefarious biloquist Enoch Hoffmann, who is the nemesis of Detective Travis Sivart. Archive 2009-05-01
People kept walking in and out of doors with nefarious purpose. Times, Sunday Times
Those of us familiar with Amnesty International's nefarious anti-Israel agenda and notoriously "suggestible" investigative methodology wondered how it could possibly match such a breathtaking lie. Alan Dershowitz: Amnesty International's Biased Definition of War Crimes: Whatever Israel Does to Defend Its Citizens
In exploring each little question raised by the events in Dallas (including many that are settled, in the eyes of every serious scholar), Stone seeks out the most abstrusely nefarious explanation possible…
The next day, the male florets mature, the flies pick up more pollen, the spines wither, and the flies are released to spread their pollen to other nefarious arums.
It's probably logically equivalent to pointing out that we know how an effective way to stop terrorists from taking over civilian planes and using them for nefarious purposes: it's called "total ground standdown" and we saw it done in September 2001. Making Light: Beating airport chemical detection systems
Perhaps he also means nefarious. Times, Sunday Times
Why make a whole village prisoner if it was not to some nefarious purpose?
Through other nefarious means, the spammer has also built up a list of email addresses.
Worse, it is theoretically impossible to determine whether computer systems are free from programming bugs or nefarious code.
While the flaws may have been discovered and the tools produced through a drive of curiosity, frequently the results of that work are used nefariously by the original authors and others with malicious intent.
I suggest those nefarious dumb republicans who post comments on this blog better refrain fro doing so for the coherence & concomitant prosperity of this country. Obama political arm goes on offense
Bay has taken the first Moon landing in 1969 and turned it to his own nefarious purposes. Times, Sunday Times
TWENTY-THREE Revelations The unWitted often tell fearsome tales of Witted ones who take on the forms of animals for nefarious reasons. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Al is hunting for Beta, a master criminal who makes illegal dittos of famous people for nefarious purposes.
What happens, though, when an innocent product could be used for nefarious purposes? Times, Sunday Times
But what connects this nefarious plan to an African warlord? Times, Sunday Times
It is not a pretty wreck but its nefarious history makes it intriguing.
No wonder British journalists resort to nefarious means to get information that in other countries is freely available. Times, Sunday Times
Pombo can now add 'carpetbagging' to his long list of nefarious political qualities. Pombo to announce new congressional bid
And there will always be something iconic for me about crazy old men in trees and the nefarious sifu who meditated on beds of nails. Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now: Happy Father’s Day! | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
They hit us where it hurts and do their damnedest to sell us products we neither want nor need in all manner of nefarious ways.
The sanguinary monsters that have de [luged] France with blood, in order to prepare the people for the [comm] ission of every crime, and thereby carry their nefarious Letter from Thomas Y. How to Joseph Caldwell, December 27, 1796 :Electronic Edition.
But what connects this nefarious plan to an African warlord? Times, Sunday Times
Raman Bhalla on this occasion, impressed upon congress workers to remain united and vigilant about nefarious designs of antinational elements. J&K Congress Committee celebrates 92nd birth anniversary of Indira Gandhi
One of Sullivan's disgruntled employees came forward to charge that the company was using its city contracts as a front to hide a nefarious plan to make illegal water hook-ups.
Once a nefarious website is "liked", an automated message is generated on the Facebook wall which states "I just got $500 by using this free tax preparation service."
My hope is that sufficient pressure will come about to halt the nefarious practices occurring in that accursed place.
Instead, the film suggests that the sole point of the war has been the manipulation of an emotional public in the pursuit of the nefarious ulterior motives of secret cabals.
Criminals don't carry out their nefarious acts in and around taxis.
Instead of telling them that a healthy lifestyle would help them live longer they framed it as an act of rebellion against the nefarious capitalist system. Times, Sunday Times
Rumours abounded of nefarious plots to cause mayhem in Istanbul itself. Earthly Powers: Religion and Politics in Europe from the Enlightenment to the Great War
This is followed by calls to action to purge the party of these nefarious centrists and moderates who have cost us our natural majority by playing to the middle.
Yet he is not cheating in the way most of us understand the term - he is not seeking to gain an advantage by nefarious means.
The term foreclosure vulture clearly has negative connotations and generates a sense of foreboding, but not all who buy foreclosed properties have nefarious intent. Buzzword: Foreclosure Vulture
How many people were involved in nefarious activity made the journey?
His arguments against the nefarious war were unanswered and unanswerable. Red Coats and Rebels - the war for America 1770-1781
It soon becomes clear that behind the attacks is the evil and ugly Supertyrant Geneszorr, who has a grudge against the goddess and a nefarious plan to take over a planet, and who with his name, appearance, and superpowers probably had few options in life besides evil overlord. Archive 2007-10-01
This morning he received a telegram from a man named George Brasfield, who had lost his job Thursday at a biscuit company in San Francisco for objecting to the distribution of "nefarious, intimidating" anti-Sinclair literature at his office. Greg Mitchell: Dispatches From Incredible 1934 Campaign: Upton Sinclair Fights Back Against Hollywood Scare Tactics
nefarious schemes
Is she losing her mind or is something nefarious afoot? Times, Sunday Times
And indeed — though I now know that Allah is everywhere and in all things — there were times when the distance between Allah and I seemed so great, so impassable, that I thought my prayers at salat were lost in the hell-red, befouled city sky, diverted from Mecca and stolen by nefarious djinn. The Parable of the Spider
The exchange itself is not thought to be responsible for nefarious activity. Times, Sunday Times
The result was that they couldn't scan their postings even for such nefarious, illegal material as child sex solicitation.
One of these boys who use the local train for their nefarious activities become the victim of a braggart.
And, lawks, wasn't that Katherine Jenkins frozen alive in an upright tomb – victim of Sardick's nefarious pawnbroking empire, where loans to poor families were exchanged for a beloved human captive? Rewind TV: Doctor Who; The Nativity; Poirot: Murder on the Orient Express; Come Fly With Me
The exchange itself is not thought to be responsible for nefarious activity. Times, Sunday Times
There's plenty of action, intrigue, and subterfuge in exotic locales around the world with a compelling variety of weapons and gadgets and a motley cast of nefarious villains to contend with.
For that, social introspection is required at all levels to identify the root causes of such nefarious crimes.
The undersigned is the post-master to whom you wrote, and the undersigned is the lawyer whose services you sought to obtain for your nefarious business. Medical Evidence in a Court of Law
Rumours abounded of nefarious plots to cause mayhem in Istanbul itself. Earthly Powers: Religion and Politics in Europe from the Enlightenment to the Great War
I don't know if this was because she was just trying to be unobtrusive, or if she thought we were up to some nefarious activity.
Sport has a history of being used for nefarious purposes. Times, Sunday Times
Can you vote for all the nefarious cabals that really run the world?
I was thinking I'd be farther along in my nefarious plans before I got a super hero… drat it.
Set in the Depression in 1934, a charming but nefarious global financier Gregor Antonescu Frank Langella is scheming to save his multinational empire. Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Man and Boy, Orson's Shadow
But what connects this nefarious plan to an African warlord? Times, Sunday Times
The blond drew a spiked chain, while the other drew a nefariously shaped sword.
Could Bruce get arrested for calling the President a nincompoop, nitwit, nefarious or a nematocyst? OpEdNews - OpEdNews.Com Progressive, Tough Liberal News and Opinion
Once in Neverland, they become enmeshed in Peter's war with his arch-enemy, the nefarious Captain Hook.
Yet I've never felt completely comfortable with the term unauthorized, probably because it sounds slightly nefarious, almost as if it involves breaking and entering. NPR Topics: News
What I find bothersome is the automatic assumption, frequently voiced here, that crime victims must always be assumed to be linked to nefarious activity unless there is overwhelming proof to the contrary. Page 2
That image just seems to have appeared unbidden in his fevered little fantasy about nefarious Anti-American Red Cross workers with foreign sounding names.
Another non - nefarious cause of increasing income disparity may be our ever - higher immigration rates.
Each country thinks independence is the cat's paw of the other: a cosmetic cover for nefarious designs.
The lectures were designed to combat the nefarious doctrines of those whom he called the modern Pelagians.
For accountability, thenfunding acentralized complaint department for the American citizens to utilize which might be a better useage of those stimulus monies instead of what is going to become another Lawyers Employment Act in its violation of citizens privacy rights with that concocted national health care database for citizens medical information for the feeder industries and states nefarious purposesin the interest of "public unsafety. The Downside Of Universal Health Care: Not Just Higher Taxes
Bay has taken the first Moon landing in 1969 and turned it to his own nefarious purposes. Times, Sunday Times
What happens, though, when an innocent product could be used for nefarious purposes? Times, Sunday Times
Even after all these years I'm still not comfortable with the term unauthorized, because it sounds so nefarious, almost as if it involves breaking and entering, NYT > Home Page
Schmidt not only asserted firmly, to an audience of democracy and freedom activists, that Google 'don't support' keylogging or other nefarious aspects of Carrier IQ's software, but he managed to paint the company as a victim along with every man and woman on the tracked, monitored and logged street. Dan Wagner: Schmidt on Carrier IQ: Good PR, Bad Business
They will make use of that allegiance and fight viciously to hold on to the power they have so nefariously usurped.
They have depleted me through the constant assault of corruption and nefarious practices.
His arguments against the nefarious war were unanswered and unanswerable. Red Coats and Rebels - the war for America 1770-1781
Hear what our Saviour says on this subject; "it must needs be that offences come, but _woe unto that man through whom they come_" -- Witness some fulfilment of this declaration in the tremendous destruction of Jerusalem, occasioned by that most nefarious of all crimes the crucifixion of the Son of God. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
I recently acquired a new phone number (not for nefarious purposes but thanks for asking) and with the new digits came all the collections-agency phone calls accrued by the previous owner of the number. Charlotte Hilton Andersen: Want to Lose Weight? Lose the Debt
If you are here on a search for nefarious things, I'm afraid I have no nefarious things.
Concerned good citizens who think they may have discovered some nefarious doings should email the anti piracy team here.
Such nefarious activity sounds absurd - we are, after all, talking about the theft of objects that exist only on screen.
People kept walking in and out of doors with nefarious purpose. Times, Sunday Times
I know I sure wouldn't like to meet such dangerous and nefarious characters down a dark alleyway.
They thrive on misinformation, on twisting the truth to suit their nefarious ends.

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