Injurious vs Nefarious - What's the difference?
injurious | nefarious | Related terms |
Causing physical harm or injury; harmful.
Causing harm to one's reputation; slanderous, libelous, invidious.
Sinful, villainous, criminal, or wicked, especially when noteworthy or notorious for such characteristics.
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* 1921 , , The Indiscretions of Archie , ch. 26:
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Injurious is a related term of nefarious.
As adjectives the difference between injurious and nefarious
is that injurious is causing physical harm or injury; harmful while nefarious is sinful, villainous, criminal, or wicked, especially when noteworthy or notorious for such characteristics.injurious
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(en adjective)Synonyms
* harmful; see also * slanderous, libelous, defamatory * See alsoDerived terms
* injuriously * injuriousnessnefarious
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(en adjective)- "If the vessel be no fair-trading slaver, nor a common cruiser of his Majesty, it is as tangible as the best man's reasoning, that she may be neither more nor less than the ship of that nefarious pirate the Red Rover."
- Mommsen . . . declares that Catiline in particular was "one of the most nefarious' men in that ' nefarious age. His villanies belong to the criminal records, not to history."
- The fact that the room was still in darkness made it obvious that something nefarious was afoot. Plainly there was dirty work in preparation at the cross-roads.
Fact Checker Finds Falsehoods in Remarks," New York Times (retrieved 12 May 2014):
- “I try to let everyone back here in Minnesota know exactly the nefarious activities that are taking place in Washington.”