nefarious
Example Sentences
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“It’s led to a rumor mill that something nefarious was done.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Cerimedo set up the hit, prosecutors charge, in a nefarious attempt at damage control.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
Anthropic, the AI tech company behind Claude, released a report Thursday detailing how bad actors have attempted to use its products for nefarious ends, from scams and mass surveillance to biological weapons development.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
Then there’s the more nefarious activities – I’ve heard of researchers deliberately moving specimens to make them hard to find so other researchers cannot examine them, and occasionally things are stolen from collections.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
But her nefarious plot to bore me to death failed again, because The Tempest was even better than The Merchant of Venice.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
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