nefarious
Example Sentences
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Sometimes, one sibling feels entitled to more and will use nefarious means to get it.
From MarketWatch
While questioning former employees of Price and Richardson, Higgins sought to paint a more nefarious picture.
From Los Angeles Times
The implication is that, in addition to engaging in nefarious financial shenanigans, one of Mr. Xi’s most trusted henchmen was plotting against him.
Despite their apparently nefarious purposes, though, the three men turn out to be nice guys in the end.
Most significantly, Flanner reported from the trials at Nuremberg, writing that a group of Nazi prisoners “seem already waxen and posthumous, like museum figures of the members of some nefarious long-ago regime which had failed.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
