How to Use nefarious in a Sentence

nefarious

adjective

• Don’t see us as a nefarious force.
  — Staff Artist, Dallas Morning News, 26 Mar. 2026
• This time there are more nefarious thugs to run toward and away from.
  — Yvette Benavides, ExpressNews.com, 1 Dec. 2020
• Like with any tool it could be used for good purposes or nefarious.
  — Graham Kates, CBS News, 17 May 2017
• What will nefarious government agents do to get their hands on it?
  — David Leonhardt, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
• But if anyone has better ideas for these nefarious times, please tell me.
  — Mario Carpo, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2025
• The most nefarious cults sometimes are the ones hidden in plain sight.
  — Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 11 Oct. 2023
• If not that, just some nefarious kind of villain, or the goofy sheriff’s deputy.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 4 Apr. 2024
• To suggest that there would be any weird nefarious meddling here, okay?
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026
• Surely, nothing nefarious or evil will come from any of this.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2025
• In the long term, their intentions could be even more nefarious.
  — Alphonso David, Fortune, 24 July 2023
• Obsessives spot nefarious clues when the film is slowed down, frame by frame, and looked at in close-up.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 21 Oct. 2025
• But the true nature of the tunnels is believed to be more nefarious than that.
  — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 18 May 2024
• The folks who speak Korean will have a head start on how nefarious this gang is.
  — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 18 Oct. 2024
• The more nefarious of these supervillains hide in plain sight.
  — WIRED, 26 Jan. 2023
• And there’s just also a lot of ways for stuff to go missing in other, less nefarious ways.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2023
• Every creative tool can be used in nefarious ways.
  — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 25 Sep. 2025
• But what if the next group of hucksters for whom Watkins serves as a mouthpiece has more nefarious goals?
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 6 Feb. 2018
• Jones says that while drones can do a lot of good, there has been an uptick in drones being used for nefarious purposes.
  — Jennifer Kite-Powell, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
• But some online claim the order is linked to something more nefarious.
  — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2022
• More nefarious plots, however, have long been a feature of the game.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2020
• Was the gas price surge a result of simple supply and demand, or were more nefarious forces at play?
  — Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2023
• The hair and the face and the poise unscathed from the nefarious effects of alcohol.
  — Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2024
• And that is leaving them wide open to the criticism that this was somehow nefarious.
  — NBC News, 14 May 2017
• As nefarious rumors spread like wildfire on the Ridge, tragedy strikes.
  — Emma Dibdin, Town & Country, 17 Apr. 2022
• But there’s nothing nefarious about that goal, spokesman Michael Rey said.
  — Gordon Dickson, star-telegram, 31 Oct. 2017
• No telling yet whether that’s a sign of good will or an indication of something nefarious at play.
  — Katie Campione, Deadline, 22 Sep. 2025
• Surely at least one of these nefarious characters knows where the bodies, and the bots, are buried?
  — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 18 Feb. 2018
• The trailer hints the same substance has an alien origin with a nefarious purpose.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 1 Sep. 2022
• And in one sequence, Cassie even lures a teenage girl into her car for what looks to be a nefarious purpose.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 15 Jan. 2021
• There’s lots of gaslighting in life and business — much of it nefarious, some of it tactical.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 28 Jan. 2022