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NEFARIOUS | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
In the 1950s and 1960s, a number of laboratory studies cemented the view that social influence has nefarious consequences on otherwise rational individuals.
He also followed a similar key element of utilitarianism, the consequentialist principle, in his analysis to determine whether luxury is desirable or nefarious.
However well-intentioned, all of these reforms had nefarious effects because of improper implementation and insufficient mobilisation of external financial resources.
Indeed, the closer the potential criminal comes to committing a nefarious deed, the more confident we can be about the prediction that he or she will commit the crime.
The blood test here was not a useful probative tool but an almost nefarious attack on the child that would leave him or her forever uncertain of his parentage.
Burgess provides an allegory on the brainwashing power of recorded music: that in the wrong ' ears', it can invoke anti-social behaviour, stimulate nefarious acts, provide pleasure but also pain.
Wheelclamping for a release fee is an industry which, if not regulated strictly, will attract nefarious and devious operators wanting to make easy money.
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These nefarious plans have increasingly been coming from above.
We all know that, occasionally, the odd character happens on a charity and exploits it in his own nefarious interests.
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