Sentence examples for nefarious motivations from inspiring English sources

Other critics, including some Georgian opposition politicians, say there are nefarious motivations behind the measure.

The administration, in both its public remarks and its investigations into leaks, has tried to portray those who leak as marginal people with nefarious motivations.

Jonathan Collegio, the spokesman for American Crossroads, the Republican Super PAC, dismisses such thinking as "puerile," arguing that there are no more "nefarious motivations" behind Republican donors than there are behind Democratic donors, which include major unions promoting their members' economic interests.

"Who do I want to be in this situation?" A powerful manipulator, fear is often used with far less nefarious motivations.

It has also been understood as a tool of manipulation or the name given to excuse actions originating from more nefarious motivations.

And let's not get started on the percentage of those lists that are assembled with some under-the-table padding of record collections or other nefarious motivations.

Grannis discerned a more nefarious motive, however.

But the Satanic Temple's motivation is far less nefarious than the Satan association may make it seem: First of all, the group doesn't actually worship the devil.

As I argue in chapter 6 of my book, the real motivations for the conquests were much more nefarious.

In the last two films Bond has been shrouded by personal motivations of guilt and revenge even as the nefarious schemes he is trying to thwart have seemed to shrink.

The company's motivation for dropping device encryption here might be no more nefarious than a desire to try to improve the performance of cheap, low power hardware (the 7-inch Fire slate can cost as little as $50 new).