0 (especially of activities) morally bad:
The company's CEO seems to have been involved in some nefarious practices/activities.
We all know that, occasionally, the odd character happens on a charity and exploits it in his own nefarious interests.
These nefarious plans have increasingly been coming from above.
Wheelclamping for a release fee is an industry which, if not regulated strictly, will attract nefarious and devious operators wanting to make easy money.
Burgess provides an allegory on the brainwashing power of recorded music: that in the wrong ' ears', it can invoke anti-social behaviour, stimulate nefarious acts, provide pleasure but also pain.
The blood test here was not a useful probative tool but an almost nefarious attack on the child that would leave him or her forever uncertain of his parentage.
Indeed, the closer the potential criminal comes to committing a nefarious deed, the more confident we can be about the prediction that he or she will commit the crime.
Abstaining from research or to limit the findings of research at the risk of having the results used for nefarious purposes is to do a greater harm.
Both biotic and abiotic factors control the distribution of these fascinating and nefarious ticks.
