The word "nefariousness" is usable in written English and is well written.
It can be used to describe the quality of being wicked or villainous. Example: "The villain's nefariousness was evident in his plans to take over the city." Alternatives include "wickedness" or "evilness."
I'VE already vented about the way some Western pundits on the left use the present Arab revolt as a club with which to bash Western nefariousness of one sort or another.
But Iranians of a certain type have always reserved their greatest fear and loathing for the British, their onetime colonial masters, whom they regard as still preëminent in affairs of global nefariousness — with the Americans merely acting as their performing monkeys.
In a segment mocking the nefariousness of food labels, he showed a Pop-Tarts ad that touts the product's "real fruit" and promises that feeding the breakfast pastry to your kids will make them rise and will make you shine.
In the past couple of years, hardly a week goes by without some new suggestion of royal nefariousness from the ensuing court case.
Perhaps he was just referring to flaws in the testing process, but those suggestions of nefariousness ("a lot of things that we learned about the collector"), in light of what amounts to his admission on Monday that he subsequently violated the league's drug policies, seem especially scurrilous on Braun's part.
Adam Frank ponders the novelty — and nefariousness — of our contemporary sense of time on NPR's 13.7: Cosmos and Culture blog, which features a handful of provocative thinkers, including the philosopher Alva Noë.
Think on it: in Lebowski Bridges plays a slacker whose very inanition helps him to rise above the nefariousness of all around him; while in True Grit he plays a man of action whose machismo functions in the same way.
That said, Remy met Frank in church (that traditional meeting place for badass conspirators to foment shameless nefariousness) and attempted a rapprochement.
The emphasis on the alleged nefariousness of wheat and gluten feels more trendy than true, but if some people unnecessarily cut out bread and eat more vegetables, well, that doesn't sound like the worst trade-off in the world.
It is a quiet, backward rural spot that in its bucolic nefariousness recalls the setting for Peter Benson's Two Cows and a Vanful of Smoke, while its extensive annals echo Adam Thorpe's Ulverton.
However, what May seems to be advocating is a drastic narrowing of "acceptable" opinion: Muslim students will only be allowed access to certain pre-vetted ideas and views, deemed, presumably, too fragile to be exposed to the full gamut of nefariousness potentially on offer.
