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I don ` t know why you think -- take joy in something nefarious, as you say, happening.— CNN Transcript May 18, 2007
And I think everybody that knows Rah knows he would not do anything nefarious, anything illegal.— CNN Transcript Dec 12, 2008
Mayor Rudy Giuliani held a press conference exposing what he characterized as a nefarious cult - hoopla that ended with a whimper as the Village Voice, The New York Times, Newsday, and other papers reported that NatlFed seemed to have never actually done anything.— FACTnet
The defense is arguing something far more nefarious -- that the state is refusing to test -- to test the sperm because they think it will be exculpatory.— CNN Transcript Oct 15, 2003
MCINTYRE: Gates had already withstood a flurry of broadsides from committee chairman and ardent war critic Robert Byrd, who railed against the cost of what he called the nefarious infernal war in Iraq.— CNN Transcript Sep 26, 2007
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