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'nefarious' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an adjective meaning 'evil or criminal'. For example: "The nefarious activities of the criminal organization have caused much suffering to the surrounding community."
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nefarious
adjective
Sinful, villainous, criminal, or wicked, especially when noteworthy or notorious for such characteristics.
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More than that, Levin also implicitly suggested that there was something wrong per se with betting that the housing market would crash, suggesting that while it's good to make money from good things happening, it's nefarious to put yourself in a position to make money when bad things happen.
I may have been a cyclist for roughly 20 of my 31 years, but I've somehow managed to go all this time without being aware that I was pootling through a battlefield of bitter politics, nefarious law breaking and ugly tribalism.
Sadly, this also opens the service up to some nefarious and illegal activity, so be careful where you tread.
Even for a show about such nefarious matters, the writers have found yet deeper recesses in the basement of human depravity.
"It is time for the media and public to focus their attention on Mr Herman's nefarious motives and tactics, which seem to be driven solely by his need to shake down an innocent man like Bryan Singer.
Throughout most of its tenure, the last BSP-DPS government faced waves of protest against its alleged links with nefarious business interests.
In related news: Leonardo DiCaprio, who plays nefarious plantation owner Calvin Candie in Django Unchained, has said he is planning a long break from acting to concentrate on environmental activism.
According to Putin on Thursday, the best answer to the imposition of sanctions by nefarious western foes, as well as to Russia's internal problems, was "freedom for development in the economic, social and civil sectors".
After an ongoing slanging match with columnist Andrew Bolt, the communications minister did a prearranged interview with Jones, who also saw nefarious intent in Turnbull's dinner last week with Clive Palmer.
In Mountbatten's final years, he became the focus for a string of conspiracy theories alleging that MI5, the army or some other combination of nefarious forces were planning to install him at the head of a government of National Unity to replace Labour's Harold Wilson.
A "white hat" hacker in techie jargon, Mr Whitaker leads a team of security specialists at Knowledge Consulting Group who spend their days trying to worm their way into clients' computer systems to see how vulnerable they are to cyber-criminals, spies and other nefarious "black hats".
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