How to Use nefarious in a Sentence

nefarious

adjective

• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• There’s lots of gaslighting in life and business — much of it nefarious, some of it tactical.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 28 Jan. 2022
• The nefarious Hale telegraphs integrity-for-show through a tweedy beige three-piece suit.
  — Fawnia Soo Hoo, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Dec. 2023
• Like with any tool it could be used for good purposes or nefarious.
  — Graham Kates, CBS News, 17 May 2017
• For school-choice types, the union’s point about money may seem nefarious, as if their only desire was to keep budgets steady.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 4 Aug. 2020
• But some online claim the order is linked to something more nefarious.
  — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2022
• Then there are of course those interested in the gold mine of health data for more nefarious reasons like fraud.
  — Erika Fry, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2018
• So overall, there is a more nuanced and at times nefarious side to the 'sustainable' leather debate.
  — Brooke Roberts-Islam, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 9 May 2024