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Wednesday, February 1, 2012

143. Nefarious


From, “Saving Freshman Ryan,” by Joe Nocera, 1/30/12, The New York Times:

I’ve also heard that the N.C.A.A. is deeply suspicious of mentors to disadvantaged athletes. Its working assumption is that men who get close to high school athletes must have nefarious motives. Well, some surely do, but some don’t.

Nefarious: Infamous by way of being extremely wicked
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