Nefarious vs Bald - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between nefarious and bald

is that nefarious is sinful, villainous, criminal, or wicked, especially when noteworthy or notorious for such characteristics while bald is having no hair, fur or feathers.

As a noun bald is

a mountain summit or crest that lacks forest growth despite a warm climate conducive to such, as is found in many places in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.

As a verb bald is

to become bald.

nefarious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

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

* 1828 , , The Red Rover , ch. 2:

"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."

* 1877 , , The Life of Cicero , ch. 9:

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."

* 1921 , , The Indiscretions of Archie , ch. 26:

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.

* 2009 Oct. 14, Monica Davey, " 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.”

Usage notes

* Commonly used in contexts involving villainous plans, conspiracies, or actions, as in: :* 1909 , , The Lady of the Shroud , book 7: ::: The whole nefarious scheme was one of the "put-up jobs" which are part of the dirty work of a certain order of statecraft.

Synonyms

* evil, iniquitous, sinister, underhanded, vile * See also

Derived terms

* nefariously * nefariousness

References

bald

English

Adjective

(wikipedia bald) (er)

Having no hair, fur or feathers.

* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)

The Skin Horse had lived longer in the nursery than any of the others. He was so old that his brown coat was bald in patches and showed the seams underneath, and most of the hairs in his tail had been pulled out to string bead necklaces.

# Having no hair on the head.

a bald man with a moustache

Of tyres: whose surface is worn away.

Of a statement: empirically unsupported.

Antonyms

* (having hair)

Derived terms

* bald as a coot * bald eagle * bald-faced * baldie * balding * baldly * baldness * baldy

Noun

(en noun)

(Appalachian) A mountain summit or crest that lacks forest growth despite a warm climate conducive to such, as is found in many places in the Southern .

Verb

(en verb)

to become bald