Example sentences for: nefarious

How can you use “nefarious” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Sonny doesn't seem to have nefarious political aims; he simply wants to create a warm and nurturing community with himself at the center.

  • Haldane, the eminent biologist who was then in his heyday as a Marxist intellectual, was provoked by the word miraculous in the title to flex his dialectic muscles at it in a lengthy review in The Rationalist Press Annual for 1943: as I remember, he dismissed it as a nefarious supernaturalist plot.

  • Similarly, it's easier to pin America's drug problem on Pablo Escobar or to blame global terrorism on a single nefarious puppeteer such as Bin Laden.

  • Nefarious Plots

  • Nowhere does Slate prove that the following definition (from the "Anti-Semitism" ) has anything to do with the examples cited in Mr. Buchanan's book: "[Anti-Semitism] is an ideology--an interlocked set of principles and prejudices--in which certain nefarious traits or practices are ascribed to Jews as a people, even when few Jews exhibit those traits or when other people engage in those practices."


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