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I have this coat that I got in a nefarious deal years ago. It's a Johnny Carson coat, and I've had it remade three times. It's mine all the time. Carson was a real man, and I thought, 'Coats for real men by real men? I'm in.'
Josh Homme

Meaning of "nefarious" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD NEFARIOUS

From Latin nefārius, from nefās unlawful deed, from nē not + fās divine law.
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PRONUNCIATION OF NEFARIOUS

nefarious  [nɪˈfɛərɪəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NEFARIOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Nefarious is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES NEFARIOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of nefarious in the English dictionary

The definition of nefarious in the dictionary is evil; wicked; sinful.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH NEFARIOUS


Aquarius
əˈkwɛərɪəs
Arius
ˈɛərɪəs
bifarious
baɪˈfɛərɪəs
Briareus
braɪˈɛərɪəs
calcareous
kælˈkɛərɪəs
carious
ˈkɛərɪəs
denarius
dɪˈnɛərɪəs
Galerius
ɡəˈlɛərɪəs
gregarious
ɡrɪˈɡɛərɪəs
hilarious
hɪˈlɛərɪəs
Marius
ˈmɛərɪəs
multifarious
ˌmʌltɪˈfɛərɪəs
omnifarious
ˌɒmnɪˈfɛərɪəs
precarious
prɪˈkɛərɪəs
quadrifarious
ˌkwɒdrɪˈfɛərɪəs
Sagittarius
ˌsædʒɪˈtɛərɪəs
Stradivarius
ˌstrædɪˈvɛərɪəs
trifarious
traɪˈfɛərɪəs
various
ˈvɛərɪəs
vicarious
vɪˈkɛərɪəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NEFARIOUS

needs
needs test
needy
neek
neem
neep
NEET
neeze
nef
nefandous
nefariously
nefariousness
nefast
Nefertiti
NEG
neg.
negate
negater
negation
negational

WORDS THAT END LIKE NEFARIOUS

bi-curious
curious
deleterious
delicious
delirious
furious
glorious
illustrious
industrious
inglorious
injurious
laborious
lugubrious
luxurious
meritorious
mysterious
notorious
serious
spurious
vainglorious
victorious

Synonyms and antonyms of nefarious in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «NEFARIOUS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «nefarious» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of nefarious

Translation of «nefarious» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF NEFARIOUS

Find out the translation of nefarious to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of nefarious from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «nefarious» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

邪恶
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

nefasto
570 millions of speakers

English

nefarious
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

नापाक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الشائن
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

гнусный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

nefasto
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পৈশাচিক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

infâme
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Jahat
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

ruchlos
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

極悪な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

사악
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nefarious
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

người đê tiện
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கொடிய
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

नापीक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çirkin
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

malvagio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nikczemny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

мерзенний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

abject
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

φαύλους
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

afstootlike
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skändlig
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

nefarious
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of nefarious

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NEFARIOUS»

The term «nefarious» is quite widely used and occupies the 46.818 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «NEFARIOUS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «nefarious» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «nefarious» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about nefarious

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6 QUOTES WITH «NEFARIOUS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word nefarious.
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Jason Alexander
Usually, characters that are doing something nefarious have some extra layers to them. The general rule is bad people don't necessarily think they are bad.
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Andrew Gross
I don't like writing straight-up thrillers. I like writing about families hurled into crisis and danger - soccer moms and regular dads and husbands who might have to rescue their daughters or who are, say, hedge fund managers and have one foot on the sidelines watching their kids and the other in nefarious cover-ups and conspiracies.
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Josh Homme
I have this coat that I got in a nefarious deal years ago. It's a Johnny Carson coat, and I've had it remade three times. It's mine all the time. Carson was a real man, and I thought, 'Coats for real men by real men? I'm in.'
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Ron Lewis
Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other nefarious activities.
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David Quammen
One of the things that's particularly nefarious about Ebola is that it continues to live in a dead person for some period of time after death. A person who's been dead for a day or two may still be seething with Ebola virus.
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Faran Tahir
Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NEFARIOUS»

Discover the use of nefarious in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to nefarious and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Hallowilloween: Nefarious Silliness from Calef Brown
Welcome to the spooky side of Calef Brown's imagination, where things are just as scarily silly as they seem! It’s a magic night, a silly, spooky scene. Are you ready for Hallowilloween?
Calef Brown, 2010
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Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice: Illicit Sex and ...
Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice also traces shifting attitudes toward illegitimacy and paternity from the late sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries.
Joanne M. Ferraro, 2008
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Nefarious
Four years ago, vampire bartender Erica Manning lost the one true love of her life.
Andrew Burke, 2003
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Nefarious Business Mogul
NEFARIOUS BUSINESS MOGUL Nobody including the detectives could understand why a very rich woman in New York who was a business mogul could be into nefarious act that was not only to cause health hazard to the people of United State but was ...
Amadi Arua, 2012
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Transformers: Nefarious
When a shadowy adversary intent on eliminating all Cybertronian life constructs an artificial Allspark to carry out its sinister plot, the Autobots must team up with Soundwave and his Decepticon troops in order to prevent catastrophe.
Simon Furman, 2010
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Nefarious Twit
Children's literature. Nefarious Twit, the ferociously clever debut from author Tony McMillen. After his mother commits suicide, Rick Lime decides to finally find his father, the legendary children's book author known as Nefarious Twit.
Tony McMillen, 2013
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A Nefarious Pentagram
Marie Glen. CHAPTER ONE THE 'END' IS NOT YET When the first angelic mind began to ponder a different universe than God's, apocalypse began. And ever since Cain slew Abel, a nefarious, and ghostly edifice and potential has been ...
Marie Glen, 2012
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Sleeping with Nefarious Intent
Glenn Hefley. Sleeping With Nefarious Intent by Glenn Hefley www.glennhefley. com This is a work of creative Writing, Poetry and opinions.
Glenn Hefley, 2011
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The Mysterious Case of the Nefarious Seafarers
C. J. Lutton. Rinsing off the perfumed, foam, I chuckled, softly. Realizing that I too, was singing the same song as had Holmes. Feeling completely invigorated and attired in my tailored, uniform; I bounded out of the room with a spring in my step  ...
C. J. Lutton, 2010
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Nefarious
No Sweat paints a topsy-turvy picture where the dimwitted locals seem to have checked their virtue at the county line; the only virtue to be found lies with those who realize they are totally devoid of virtue -- Hawkins and his band.
No Sweat, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NEFARIOUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term nefarious is used in the context of the following news items.
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Do not be fooled by cantankerous malcontent , nefarious and self …
The folks of South Africa have not always been all talk and no action. The people played their facet in the armed struggle to end white colonial ... «News24, Jul 15»
2
Meet the malevolent offspring of classic Disney villains in …
Premiering July 31, "Descendants" tells the story of the offspring of some Disney's most nefarious villains in a new magically entertaining ... «WTVD-TV, Jul 15»
3
Watch a Clip From 'Scooby-Doo! and Kiss: Rock and Roll Mystery …
It wouldn't be a Scooby adventure without seemingly supernatural nefarious deeds, and Mystery fits that bill by bringing the detective dog and ... «Ultimate Classic Rock, Jul 15»
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Royally embarrassed
The paper, meanwhile, pointed to the public interest in further exposing the nefarious ways of Edward VIII, a known Nazi sympathiser, who ... «The Economist, Jul 15»
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5 epic sci-fi, fantasy shows you should binge-watch this summer
As if that wasn't trippy enough, it only gets crazier from there, plunging the viewer headfirst into a nefarious plot where human cloning (and all ... «USA TODAY College, Jul 15»
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Yacht rock is the elixir of youth for old softies
Those (other) people got crazy on a lot of nefarious substances, but it was a very aggressive kind of a thing. We had a very good time, but our ... «Chicago Tribune, Jul 15»
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Hitchhiking robot hits American roads
So far, there are no signs of anything nefarious done to the robot, but there's also no proof. Its creators intentionally cast their gaze aside. «Detroit Free Press, Jul 15»
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Alleged Spider-Man Costume Photos Surface!
The new status quo fractures the Avengers while they try to protect the world from a new and nefarious villain. What do you make of the alleged ... «Superherohype.com, Jul 15»
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Class-action suit filed against UCLA Health over patient-data …
In black-market cyberforums, where identity thieves and other criminals buy and sell stolen information for nefarious purposes, medical-record ... «ConsumerAffairs, Jul 15»
10
There's Something Fishy About Your Sushi
In an online generation where other nefarious groups like ISIS are using social media to recruit Jihadis from the other side of the world to carry ... «Vocativ, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Nefarious [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/nefarious>. Apr 2024 ».
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