I asked him how long he had been engaged in that nefarious business.
Blinded by lust of gold and pleasure, they left nothing undone to insure the failure of his project, and in the end succeeded in their nefarious purpose.
Mommsen, who was certainly biassed by no feeling in favor of Cicero, declares that Catiline in particular was "one of the most nefarious men in that nefarious age.
What would men say of the Christian minister who should instruct the penitent gambler how to continue the stated practice of his nefarious art in a Christian manner: and the penitent adulterer how to continue his guilty connexion exemplarily?
But the House now proceeded to a more direct effort to extinguish the nefarious traffick.
The next step is taken when it comes to be believed not only that the thing is nefarious but that not every one can do it.
Nefarious purposes, whether worked by magic or by other means, are condemned by religion and are nefarious especially because offensive to the god who has the interests of the community at heart.
Now by nefarious purposes I mean purposes inconsistent with or destructive of the common good.
I take it therefore that what religion is fundamentally opposed to is magic--or anything else--that is used for nefarious purposes.
A further stage of development is reached when the man who uses his personal power for nefarious purposes undertakes by means of it to control spirits: magic then tends to pass into fetichism.
It is the ends for which nefarious magic is used that are condemned, and not the means.
But some plants, as we have already pointed out, were credited with the magic property of revealing the presence of witches, and of exposing them engaged in the pursuit of plying their nefarious calling.
In the nefarious trade carried on by the representatives of this cruel system of sorcery certain plants were largely employed for working marvels, hence the mystic character which they have ever since retained.
Christians have taken their full share in both branches of the nefarious trade; and equally with Jews and Mohammedans have they been guilty of its most hideous enormities.
So fierce and reckless had it grown, on the part of the wretched woman, that she was ready for anything that promised to procure her its requital--ready even for the nefarious purpose of Chakra.
And Tate, anxious to sustain his high reputation as a negro-catcher, left no stone unturned to carry out his nefarious objects.
The avarice of Abdallah was not able to withstand the temptation; and, aware that there was no chance of the nefarious transaction being discovered by the sultan, he agreed to the proposal.
On these days they try to make their way into a neighbour's house and to borrow or steal something from it; and woe betide the man in whose house they have succeeded in their nefarious errand!
It may be, nevertheless, that the time is not yet come for the majority of Englishmen to realise fully how much was saved to their heritage by Bradlaugh's long stand against nefarious faith.
Thus the Opposition stood explicitly on the nefarious application of an ambiguous legal formula, which, as has been above shown, was not at all framed to carry the meaning thus put upon it.
So far from violently taking up the cudgels for the nefarious traffic, as he had done on previous occasions, Herve remained silent and even looked confused.
Dominic purposely did not join his comrades that morning; he figured upon their absence to carry out his nefarious deed.
We allude to the nefarious and monstrous custom of ejecting tenants who have made improvements, or, when permitted to remain, making them pay for the improvements which they have made.
Small need have they of the dark lantern, so accurately have they studied the plan of the house, so apt are they in their nefarious trade.
But then came the fictitious conscience, with its nefarious calculations, to prove that, in their present circumstances, the dispensation which withheld others was a blessing to him that was given.
And here he had an opportunity of witnessing the extreme skill with which Flanagan conducted this nefarious exploit.
I will vote unhesitatingly against nefarious designs like these.
The meanest way such men had of carrying on theirnefarious trade was to kill the mother cow after the calf was old enough to live on grass, brand the calf and run it off to another part of the range.
The beverage may, in fact, be neither more nor less than a compound of the most deleterious substances; and it is also clear that all ranks of society are alike exposed to the nefarious fraud.
It is not less lamentable that the extensive application of chemistry to the useful purposes of life, should have been perverted into an auxiliary to this nefarious traffic.
For the abolition of such nefarious practices, it is the interest of all classes of the community to co-operate.
We are not permitted to doubt the truth of these appalling facts,-- neither as regards the nefarious traffic, nor the captive women and children.
From the earliest times they had presented a firm front to the Portuguese encroachments, and the latter were even forced into a sort ofnefarious alliance with them.
Nor does it appear that the nefarious practices of these Lightermen have been confined to West Indian produce alone.
This nefarious traffic had long been reduced to a regular system.
In thisnefarious traffic a number of the lower order of the German Jews in London assist the dealers in an eminent degree, particularly in the circulation of bad halfpence.
The frauds committed by the fabrication of base Money, and by the nefarious practices, in the introduction of almost every species of Counterfeit Coin into the circulation of the Country, are next to be discussed.
Among many other nefarious exploits performed by these miscreants, the following may suffice to shew to what extent their daring and impudent conduct carried them.
It would fill a volume to recount the various ramifications of this nefarious traffic, and the devices used to defeat Justice and elude the punishment of the Law.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nefarious" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
