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insidious

[ US /ˌɪnˈsɪˌdiəs/ ]
[ UK /ɪnsˈɪdɪəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way
    glaucoma is an insidious disease
    a subtle poison
  2. beguiling but harmful
    insidious pleasures
  3. intended to entrap

How To Use insidious In A Sentence

  • He added: 'I consider them insidious and extremely dangerous. Times, Sunday Times
  • The latest strategy is now seen dropping unsupported accusations across the media spectrum to the effect that the intelligence agency's assignment of Ambassador Joseph Wilson to look into the now-discredited Iraq/Niger/uranium claims were all part of a long-term insidious scheme to try and discredit the Bush Administration. Brad Friedman: Wingnuts Declare Coordinated All-Out Cross-Media War on CIA as Newest Front in TreasonGate!
  • I wrote about coming out in the family and about the insidious homophobia of siblings.
  • Still and all, when I say there is something "insidious" about the taste of Dutch Coca-Cola she hs to ask what insidious means -- she knows what it means, but she just has to check, because she doesn't understand why I would choose such a word -- I revised to "malevolent" -- to describe such a benign thing. Evolver Diary Entry
  • Things have changed in many ways, but few things as dramatically or as insidiously as the manner in which we receive and process information. Judith Acosta: And Now, More About Me: The Sorry State Of The News Media
  • This powerful polemic about the insidious links between media, celebrity and the public makes for entertaining viewing. Times, Sunday Times
  • There is a massive sub-culture there, looking backwards and it's getting more insidious all the time.
  • “Kobold—” But the word died on his lips as Zaldimar further increased the insidious illumination. WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE
  • He has written that academics work more insidiously than the street toughs they effectively team up with on occasion.
  • It's an insidious game of gotcha that attempts to destroy the private lives of celebrities.
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