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be nefarious
adjective
Sinful, villainous, criminal, or wicked, especially when noteworthy or notorious for such characteristics.
Exact(17)
Of course, defaults can be nefarious as well.
Breaches of the law may not always be nefarious, said Genovesi – ignorance plays a large part.
"What could possibly be nefarious about not developing a piece of property?
It's a city game, an intimate sport dense with colorful characters, some of whom invariably turn out to be nefarious.
Several county officials, who asked not to be named, said they were stunned that the problems in the sheriff's department could be nefarious enough to inspire a murder.
And in fact, in the work I've done, and even in a lot of the research I've read on this, it doesn't seem to be nefarious.
Similar(43)
To them, this is proof that the organization is nefarious.
"Looking back, we think it was nefarious," he said.
Although generally recognized as safe, its interactions with most living systems have been nefarious.
Other critics, including some Georgian opposition politicians, say there are nefarious motivations behind the measure.
Intellectual property owners are numerous and obviously not all of them are nefarious.
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