Sentence examples for nefarious afoot from inspiring English sources

(The police were notified that there was nothing nefarious afoot).

While my uncle was incorrect in his assessment that there was a singular white man behind all of these ills, he was right to think that there was something nefarious afoot.

These days, there is more than enough nefarious activity afoot in the Czech capital to fill a three-hour excursion.

At the height of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, Adlai E. Stevenson, the American chief delegate to the United Nations, crystallized one of the most dramatic moments of the cold war when he displayed spy-plane photos of Soviet nuclear missiles being delivered in Cuba -- images that swept away Soviet denials that anything nefarious was afoot.

He tends, instead, to talk, after mass shootings, about how much better it would have been if everyone in the room had had a gun, and he spent a good part of the campaign warning "Second Amendment people" that there were nefarious plans afoot to ravage the Constitution and take away their guns.

(Not, thank heavens, completely or permanently; the appearance of Newhart, and with Curtin, is reason enough to watch "The Librarians").. Together, Eve and Flynn realize there's a nefarious plot afoot that involves finding King Arthur's sword and systematically killing all those once considered for the job of Librarian.

If making movies people want to see isn't enough of a celebrity-studded plot to corrupt American small town values -- and based on Palin's family, I'd say those are drug addiction, drug dealing, underage drinking, unprotected sex, and pre-marital pregnancy -- there seems to be a more nefarious scheme afoot!

And nefarious forces are afoot.