From a legal view-point, this doubly nefandous malefactor was now twicedead.

It had only horror, because I knew unerringly the monstrous, nefandous analogy that had suggested it.

Sargo: 'Tis a wizard, One Natanasna, whom he summons up For practise of nefandous necromancy.

Only the bricks of the chimney, the stones of the cellar, some mineral and metallic litter here and there, and the rim of that nefandous well.

Black, agoniz- ing waves of guilt washed through his mind, telling him this was a crime beyond forgiveness, a nefandous action from which the universe turned aside in loathing.

Many of the persons who held such opinions were, of course, guilty of the most nefandous conduct themselves, and yet saw no paradox in holding such views because they were not hypocrites themselves-they took no moral stances and lived by none.