nefarious
He makes marks on his milk carton to ensure that no one nefariously steals any.
This is mainly (and nefariously) a thinly veiled way to target lower-income youths.
Attacks involved botnets, networks of computers that have been compromised by an unauthorized user, who can then command and control them, surreptitiously and usually nefariously.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Morally wrong and evil
abhorrent
abhorrently
amoral
amorality
anomie
dissipated
dissolute
dissolutely
dissoluteness
enormity
nefariousness
no goodidiom
no more Mr Nice Guyidiom
non-ethical
obscene
trespass
turpitude
unconscionable
unconscionably
unethical
Examples of nefariously
nefariously
Money is taken which should have belonged to somebody else and is
nefariously misappropriated.
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Those mines can be deployed easily and
nefariously from ships and aircraft.
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