Usually means: Wicked or criminal; extremely villainous.
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  1. nefarious: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. nefarious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nefarious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nefarious: Collins English Dictionary
  5. nefarious: Vocabulary.com
  6. Nefarious, nefarious: Wordnik
  7. nefarious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. nefarious: Wiktionary
  9. nefarious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. nefarious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. nefarious: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Nefarious, nefarious: Dictionary.com
  13. nefarious: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Nefarious (EP), Nefarious (Spoon), Nefarious: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Nefarious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. nefarious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. nefarious: Rhymezone
  18. nefarious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. nefarious: Free Dictionary
  20. nefarious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. nefarious: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  22. nefarious: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. nefarious: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nefarious: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Sinful, villainous, criminal, or wicked, especially when noteworthy or notorious for such characteristics.

Similar:
wicked, villainous, flagitious, fiendish, villainly, vicious, black-hearted, sinister, diabolic, sinful, more...

Opposite:
benevolent, benign

Types:
deceitful, malicious, villainous, corrupt, wicked, sinister, malevolent, treacherous, fraudulent, more...

Phrases:
Doctor Nefarious, nefarious deeds, evil nefarious bad, nefarious actor, dark nefarious, more...

Colors:
    black,     dark red,     midnight blue,     charcoal,     blood red,     onyx,     maroon,     burgundy,     slate gray,     forest green


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Similar:
wicked, villainous, flagitious, fiendish, villainly, vicious, black-hearted, sinister, diabolic, sinful, more...

Opposite:
benevolent, benign

Types:
deceitful, malicious, villainous, corrupt, wicked, sinister, malevolent, treacherous, fraudulent, more...

Phrases:
Doctor Nefarious, nefarious deeds, evil nefarious bad, nefarious actor, dark nefarious, nefarious plans, more...

Colors:
    black,     dark red,     midnight blue,     charcoal,     blood red,     onyx,     maroon,     burgundy,     slate gray,     forest green



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