Describe a person's actions as nefarious if they are evil or wicked. Batman and Superman are always fighting evildoers and stopping their nefarious plots. Nefarious comes from the Latin nefas "crime, impiety." If something is nefarious, it is criminal, evil, malicious and wicked.
How do you use nefarious?
Nefarious in a Sentence ?
- How nefarious of you to fling dog crap on my car!
- Having a long rap sheet, the man lead a life of nefarious behavior.
- One man employed his nefarious scheme to hack into people's computers and steal bank account information.
Is there a word nefarious?
Vicious and villainous are two wicked synonyms of nefarious, and, like nefarious, both mean "highly reprehensible or offensive in character, nature, or conduct." But these synonyms are not used in exactly the same way in all situations.
