That would exclude Taliban militants, no matter how nefarious their intentions might be.
In the high-powered world of New York real estate, where dark, nefarious plots are a matter of course, Mr. Kalikow vowed to discover who was out to get him.
Unless Rodriguez's behavior was even more nefarious — tipping only when it mattered most — the numbers give no reason to believe he was involved.
No matter what kind of nefarious activities you get up to, Ice Angel, the latest artwork by London light-architects Cinimod Studio, allows you to see yourself in angelic form.
A statement explains the matter, along with implications of a nefarious motive: "Mr. Boxill maintained copies of certain tracks, waited until after Prince's tragic death, and is now attempting to release tracks without the authorization of the Estate and in violation of the agreement and applicable law".
Here in Wukan, many residents believed that the national government had not yet intervened to resolve matters simply because it had been misled by nefarious local officials to believe that all was well.
"I think this was a matter of confusion about the regulations, not some nefarious case of officials holding back information," said Veronica Blette, an official in the Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water of the federal Environmental Protection Agency.
Lacking faith in her nefarious associate's techniques to thwart the polygraph, my mother had taken matters into her own hands.
Mr. Norcross bristles at words like "boss," "power broker" or "machine" -- which he says imply nefarious activity -- though he concedes that he is not beyond letting personal matters affect political decisions.
What's most nefarious about plastic is the way it pretends to deny the laws of matter, as if something could be made from nothing; the way it is intended to be thrown away but chemically engineered to last.
