| 单词 | nefarious |
| 释义 | nefarious (nɪfeəriəs ) adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] If you describe an activity as nefarious, you mean that it is wicked and immoral. [literary] Why make a whole village prisoner if it was not to some nefarious purpose? Synonyms: wicked, base, criminal, evil Collocations: nefarious activity If these sites are getting a cut of the commission, the advertisers are technically funding these nefarious activities. Times, Sunday Times Many saw 'prison' as a legitimate and restful break from their more nefarious activities and conditions were much better than many 'trainees', as they were called, faced on release. Times, Sunday Times But these nefarious activities go on anyway. Times, Sunday Times People kept walking in and out of doors with nefarious purpose. Times, Sunday Times An assumed spirituality has sanctified otherwise nefarious purpose; it cleansed rapacious acts of colonial dispossession or shady business practices. Times,Sunday Times Unfortunately, many of its users seem to be employing it for nefarious purposes. Times, Sunday Times Monetary policy can also, however, be used for more nefarious purposes. Times, Sunday Times What happens, though, when an innocent product could be used for nefarious purposes? Times, Sunday Times |
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