How to Use nefarious in a Sentence
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The hair and the face and the poise unscathed from the nefarious effects of alcohol.
— Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2024 -
The most nefarious cults sometimes are the ones hidden in plain sight.
— Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 11 Oct. 2023 -
This time there are more nefarious thugs to run toward and away from.
— Yvette Benavides, ExpressNews.com, 1 Dec. 2020 -
But what if the next group of hucksters for whom Watkins serves as a mouthpiece has more nefarious goals?
— Michael Harriot, The Root, 6 Feb. 2018 -
But the true nature of the tunnels is believed to be more nefarious than that.
— Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 18 May 2024 -
If not that, just some nefarious kind of villain, or the goofy sheriff’s deputy.
— Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 4 Apr. 2024 -
Now, to be clear, this doesn't require a nefarious plot.
— Mark Dohnalek, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021 -
The folks who speak Korean will have a head start on how nefarious this gang is.
— Joe Lynch, Billboard, 18 Oct. 2024 -
Yeoh plays Scían, the last of a nomadic tribe of sword-elves on a quest to retrieve a sword stolen from her people by nefarious means.
— Nick Romano, EW.com, 25 Sep. 2021 -
And there’s just also a lot of ways for stuff to go missing in other, less nefarious ways.
— The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2023 -
This would not be the first time the United States talked to a nefarious regime with a history of deceit in order to stop a war.
— Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 13 July 2023 -
And in one sequence, Cassie even lures a teenage girl into her car for what looks to be a nefarious purpose.
— Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 15 Jan. 2021 -
Surely at least one of these nefarious characters knows where the bodies, and the bots, are buried?
— Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 18 Feb. 2018 -
But the people of Africa matter to James’ Sarah, who’s stepping up to blow the whistle about the nefarious goings-on.
— Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2024 -
But evil robots aside, the devices first have to face a more nefarious foe: lightning.
— Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 5 May 2018 -
In the long term, their intentions could be even more nefarious.
— Alphonso David, Fortune, 24 July 2023 -
More nefarious plots, however, have long been a feature of the game.
— Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2020 -
So does the nefarious head of a crime syndicate, played by Paul Bettany.
— Bryan Bishop, The Verge, 15 May 2018 -
Was the gas price surge a result of simple supply and demand, or were more nefarious forces at play?
— Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2023 -
But our Knights will soon learn there is a larger, more nefarious force at work within Gotham City.
— Marc Berman, Forbes, 19 May 2022 -
As nefarious rumors spread like wildfire on the Ridge, tragedy strikes.
— Emma Dibdin, Town & Country, 17 Apr. 2022 -
Hudson St.] was sort of a nefarious spot, a wise-guy hangout.
— Michael O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 June 2017 -
Caine takes on the contract to protect his daughter, and in the end he’s freed from his obligations to the nefarious High Table.
— Jordan Moreau, Variety, 15 May 2024 -
The town itself is a classic of the genre, full of scheming locals, buried secrets and nefarious elites trying to make a quick buck.
— David Faris, theweek, 14 Jan. 2024 -
The trailer hints the same substance has an alien origin with a nefarious purpose.
— Michael Kan, PCMAG, 1 Sep. 2022 -
The more nefarious of these supervillains hide in plain sight.
— WIRED, 26 Jan. 2023 -
And that is leaving them wide open to the criticism that this was somehow nefarious.
— NBC News, 14 May 2017 -
But there’s nothing nefarious about that goal, spokesman Michael Rey said.
— Gordon Dickson, star-telegram, 31 Oct. 2017 -
Sarah had hired the nefarious group to kill Governor Dutton.
— Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2024 -
How will nefarious actors in the world use this technology?
— R. Edward Freeman, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2024
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