Andrew Gross

I don't like writing straight-up thrillers. I like writing about families hurled into crisis and danger - soccer moms and regular dads and husbands who might have to rescue their daughters or who are, say, hedge fund managers and have one foot on the sidelines watching their kids and the other in nefarious cover-ups and conspiracies.

American Author

Anthony Scaramucci

I'm focused on leaks that hurt the institution of the president and the president himself. I understand we have to leak things to reporters to help shape policy or try to balloon things or do tests on ideas or people for different jobs. I'm talking about nefarious, unnecessary, backstabbing, palace intrigue-like leaks.

American Businessman

James Comey

ISIL's widespread reach through the Internet and social media is most concerning, as the group has proven dangerously competent at employing such tools for its nefarious strategy. ISIL uses high-quality, traditional media platforms as well as widespread social media campaigns to propagate its extremist ideology.

American Public Servant

Matthew Walker

The gross demonstration of caffeine is that it prevents you from falling asleep. The slightly more nefarious aspect of caffeine is that maybe you can fall asleep, but we know that the depth of deep sleep you're getting if caffeine is still in your system is severely less.

English Scientist

Cliff Stearns

The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology, while still, at the same time, protecting unwitting consumers from the harm caused when it is misused and, of course, designed for nefarious purposes.

American Politician

Jared Cohen

I want to use the best technology we have at our disposal to begin to take on trolling and other nefarious tactics that give hostile voices disproportionate weight. To do everything we can to level the playing field.

Ron Lewis

Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other nefarious activities.

Jason Alexander

Usually, characters that are doing something nefarious have some extra layers to them. The general rule is bad people don't necessarily think they are bad.

American Actor

Brandi Rhodes

I'm true to myself, but I always have a soft spot for my husband no matter how nefarious I am.

American Wrestler

Sean Spicer

To be clear, any attempt to hack or to do anything nefarious is wrong and illegal.

Nefarious implies a deep level of wickedness, often related to serious moral offenses, not minor wrongs.

Negative Connotation

'Nefarious' suggests actions that are extremely harmful or destructive, not just bad behavior.

High Severity

Nefarious activities are often secretive, done under the radar to avoid detection.

Covert Operations

 but I think there's one important point worth making, which is, that accusation comes from people in the U.S. government, from people in the media who are loyalists to these various governments, and I think a lot of times when people make accusations like that about other people — "Oh, he can't really be doing this for principled reasons, he must have some corrupt, nefarious reason" —

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 Starving and exhausted, some of the men stumble upon a palatial home where a stunning woman welcomes them inside for a sumptuous feast. Of course, this all turns out to be too good to be true. The woman, in fact, is the nefarious sorceress Circe, and as soon as the soldiers have eaten their fill at her table,

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 also preserve the sanctity and the protection for minority groups and we try to make sure that ethnic minorities that there in terms of gender we do make sure that the right protections are in place that cyberbullying doesn't exist and that we allow for the fact that if there are nefarious things going on

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 of about this we went out and we went a couple of days hunting monkeys and stuff like that and then eventually I think started to get a sense that I didn't have any nefarious agenda or something they said you know if you really want to

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 crawls into plain view of birds as the Sun rises something the snails never do on their own it's as if the worms reprogram the snails brain for their own nefarious purpose final fact some snails that have been infected actually live

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 Parasites are not degenerates, they're actually maybe the most successful life form on earth. And they do all sorts of amazing things. They were using their hosts for all sorts of nefarious purposes to get what they needed.

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 Disorder afflicts the land, caused by powerful and nefarious forces working against the interests of humanity. But the hero will revolt against this disorder, fight those powerful forces, against the odds overthrow them

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 government headquarters not not for any nefarious reason but no one still has a way of taking this information and spreading the ideas that these information caddy there so these are some of the ways by which

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 The world is in robots have taken over, and only Ethic can set things right. In order to do so, they’ll need to collect three powerful artifacts that are being used for nefarious purposes across the land.

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 when facing two opponents simultaneously. This sort of counterintuitive result is why misleading statistics are a favored tool of unscrupulous politicians and nefarious Diskymon trainers alike.

Nefarious

Doing something wrong or evil.

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