The term of art for this is "nefarious business" — creating the appearance of success in order to attract actual success.
3.58pm: Mike Grant in San Francisco reckons there may be a nefarious reason for Lucas's continual inclusion in the Liverpool team: "Maybe he has some dodgy photos," says he. He's a tidy enough player Mike, and if he does have any photos of Benítez, who really would want to see them.
"We live in a world where if you use anonymizing tools, people assume it's for nefarious reasons," Misata, the Tor Project spokeswoman, said.
After Trump's Soros tweet about Kavanaugh, the neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer echoed and surpassed Trump's assertion that anti-Kavanaugh dissent was a nefarious, paid-for plot.
It is Labour whom Toynbee should be attacking for "nefarious" political behaviour.
But, like any technology, it can also be used for nefarious purposes.
She said the scheme allowed "fraudsters" to apply for South African passports that could be used for "nefarious activities abroad".
On the other hand, that also meant that it could be used to find holes in networks that could be exploited for nefarious purposes.
Some congressmen have also questioned whether the data collected by these sorts of vehicles could be used for nefarious ends by big business or government.
In Banbury, the task is to check Huawei hardware and software for faults and bugs that could be exploited for nefarious purposes.
