Wicked cracking safe in court interior

Usage examples of nefarious.

I dreamed that night that she had married a professional gambler, who cut her throat in the course of the first six months because the dear child refused to aid and abet his nefarious schemes.

The Directorate is her babyshe was one of those who pushed to get it set upand she has no intention of letting it be used for nefarious purposes.

Guild, the trade association of ceramicists, tilemakers, glassblowers, and other artisans that was the cover for the most brutal and nefarious ring of thieves in the Market.

I must make what use I can of the time of this delay, caused by the nefarious razzia, now in course of operation.

Either vivisection is a good thing and hence should not be interfered with, or it is a nefarious business and should be stopped.

Al-Nomani recited the litany and watched, determined to maintain the steady singsong of the nefarious quatrain no matter what happened.

It had been thought that accomplishing such conjuring with people was not only a lost art but impossible because, among other things, such nefarious work required the use of not only Additive but Subtractive Magic.

The blackmailer had given her all she needed to defeat his nefarious schemes.

French military outpost engaged in nefarious deals, trading firewater for English scalps.

Should any of the ships involved in the attack on Gijon be sunk or run aground or prized, should any of the soldiers or crewmen or nobles be captured, they were completely on their own and King Arthur would disavow any slightest knowledge of them and their nefarious ventures into kingdoms with which the Crown was at peace.

Almost as soon as they were on the open blue mosaic of the Atlantic Ocean, Sunshine steered the boat south, along the Hesperidean coast of Palm Beach, affording his nefarious crew a clear and uninterrupted view of a plurality of plutocratic homes and gardens containing golden apples, ambrosia spurting fountains, and three-headed attack dogs.

It would also cast Irena into the spotlight, which she feared because of her nefarious past.

In no way disturbed, the Missourian went coolly about his nefarious business and soon accomplished his purpose.

I now proclaim how you have wickedly and sacrilegiously turned the Old Free Grace Meeting-House into a slave-pen, whence for above a year you have conducted a nefarious and most inhuman commerce with the West Indies.

After all, one of the problems with enforcing the sanctions against Iraq is the skill with which the Iraqis have camouflaged their nefarious activities.