nefariousness

Say the snapshot does not reveal another reality - a hidden darkness, a nefariousness.

The third is that anything appearing to incriminate him is the product of police bungling or nefariousness.

"The nefariousness comes from Bud Selig saying teams are losing money, knowing full well there are good reasons for that.

From this slender thread I weave a speculation that cloth, or clout, has a history of nefariousness that may have influenced the whole phrase's semantic shift from positive to negative.

On the other hand, it has to be noted that there's always someone willing to use "criticism of Israel" as a way to single out the allegedly unique (by implication) nefariousness of the Jews.

The reprehensible governance revealed is worse and more serious than any player's nefariousness, all the more so because there is no higher authority to which an appeal for sanity and necessary reform can be made.

He appears no more imposing on the mound than some groundskeeper, no lanky rancor of Randy Johnson, no lean nefariousness of Pedro Martinez, none of the portly desperado of David Wells.

"I have a direct knowledge of Pius IX's nefariousness," said Elena Mortara, a professor of American literature at the University of Rome and a great-granddaughter of one of Edgardo's sisters.

Although it sounds as if Nancy Friday's adolescence was about as painful as one would expect adolescence to be, I suspect she's attributing an entirely too sophisticated nefariousness to the 11-year-old boys who failed to ask her to dance (Lives: "The Age of Beauty," May 19).