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.
Our sport is rife with that same insidious elitism that has decayed the core of other field sports, which now face the very real prospect of being outlawed.
Mudge and Roseroar had recovered completely from their insidiously induced lethargies and were eager to set out again. The Day of the Dissonance
This arises largely and insidiously from the slavish adoption here of virtually all Americanisms - some invaluable, the majority deplorable.
All have an insidious onset, progress slowly over years, and death is usually due to an intercurrent illness and not directly due to the disease itself.
Xenotransplanters must overcome the problems of rejection, from the sugar-related hyperacute rejection to the insidiously slow T cell run processes of acute and chronic rejection. Analog Science Fiction and Fact
People will continue to debate the racial and sexual politics of Mapplethorpe's portraits: Does his "fetishistic" focus on the massive genitals of his black subjects propagate insidious stereotypes of black male sexuality? Archive 2009-07-01
But how do you put a price on what we sell, which is more impalpable, insidious, sad and empty than the decay that you read here?
High-blood pressure is an insidious condition which has few symptoms.
An anti-nuclear activist with Greenpeace Germany picks through discarded tires to measure a more insidious waste—high radiation levels on the banks of the Techa River in Russia's Ural Mountains.
Second, it seeks to reverse the insidious culture of division that has grown up around the existence of these principles.
Through the insidious contrivance called inflation, they could effectively transfer a portion of the oil fortune into their coffers.
In their corrupt and shadowy pursuit of what they consider to be evil, they themselves become more insidiously black-hearted than the repentant sinner they pursue.
He must divert their sympathy for Ray into distrust of him, and before he had fully considered his words they were spoken, -- crafty, insidious, and calumniatory. Marion's Faith.
One or two other insidious pests have crept almost unnoticed into my garden this month including blackfly, which have infested the tall flowering stems of the cardoons.
Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice. Miroslav Volf: Did 9/11 Make Us Morally 'Better'?
Not good solid rain at all, just the insidious kind that leaches the warmth out of your bones and drags you down.
You can see it in insidious ways. Times, Sunday Times
Most politicians abandoned tariffs years ago in favour of subtle, but more insidious, nontariff barriers. Times, Sunday Times
Satan is the insidious tempter who whispers in men's hearts.
Lobotomy is notorious for its over-zealous application and long-term damaging effects, post-trauma counselling - otherwise known as 'debriefing' - has been shown to make trauma worse in some people, and drug company advertising is widely cited for its insidious effects on both doctors and patients. Mind Hacks: July 2006 Archives
And it is this influence which is understandably resented by many, who see it as insidiously undermining our own culture.
To introduce or otherwise convey ( a thought, for example ) gradually and insidiously.
Yet most of us have already unconsciously surrendered to the more insidious aspects of modernity long before we even contemplate drawing our swords from their scabbards and inspecting them for rust.
This is how fashion works: it is an insidious force that strips one of volition and sense. Times, Sunday Times
That effect is insidious but hardly subtle, and it is certainly not in the public interest. Times, Sunday Times
these drugs act insidiously
For him, if not for all seekers of remembrance, there were other dangers more insidious and subtle. The Broken God
Organized crime has an insidious influence on all who come into contact with it.
One of the more insidious invasions of our privacy rights is the rampant spread of drug tests in the American workplace.
Yet the incursions on free speech can be insidious and imperceptible.
Their approach tends to be more subtle - and perhaps even more insidious.
Lies are the first signs of corruption and redacted history is an insidious form of lying. Times, Sunday Times
The more insidious problem that will remain is stacking the ballot paper in a deliberate attempt to increase the informal vote.
Worse yet, the Diamondback is becoming resistant to pesticides. So farmers have begun to deploy an insidious weapon.
But they could not control the everyday behaviour of soldiers who knew from years of experience, at home and abroad, that priestcraft was the most persistent and insidious enemy of the Revolution.
Insidious Prophet says: tombaker says: cg is funny. Think Progress » GOP congressman: Palin’s ‘reload’ map with crosshairs targeted at House Democrats is ‘inappropriate.’
In contrast, posterior bleeding may be asymptomatic or may present insidiously as nausea, hematemesis, anemia, hemoptysis, or melena.
This attack is all the more insidious because "Catholics" are at the forefront of using their positions of power to try to destroy the Church. AP: Pro-abortion Gov. Kathleen Sebelius tapped to lead HHS
So insidious and far reaching had become the inculcation of false philosophies summed up in the general term Kultur, that the subjects of the autocratic-ridden empires believed they were being guided by benign influences. History of the American Negro in the Great World War His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe; Including a Resume of His Past Services to his Country in the Wars of the Revolution, of 1812, the War of Rebellion, the Indian Wars on the Frontier, t
Henceforth he is to fight his way through the storms of life and passion -- to pass onward and upward and at last to rise to 'higher spheres'; and amidst the fierce and insidious assaults of flesh and devil we shall see that he looks for strength and guidance to this Spirit that appeared to him in the blinding vision of living empyreal flame. The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'
This moral abstention is nosing its way down our streets with insidious intent. Capital Punishment
But with cuts for capital expenditure and the insidious effects of inflation, flat cash looks more and more like putting science on the back burner. Times, Sunday Times
It may seem like a minor point, but any attempt to dilute the term anti-Semitism by linking it to all the peoples of the Mideast, and not just the Jews, is an insidious form of, well, anti-Semitism. Gabriel Rotello: Can al-Maliki Be "Anti-Semitic" If He's a Semite Himself?
There was the slow, insidious change from fresh-faced beauty to freak.
Spim is more insidious than spam because messages pop up automatically when a user is logged in, making them harder to ignore.
The very notion is ‘insidious, unworthy, diabolical, appalling, shrill and hysterical’.
Yet if the results of ‘public consultations’ are trifling, the effect on our political culture is insidious.
This kind of advertising acts insidiously on young minds.
This would amount to a particularly insidious kind of discrimination, one that often goes undetected. Christianity Today
The more insidious implication is political.
The popularity of handphones among teenagers here makes these chain SMS messages particularly insidious.
The performance consists in a dinner where one eats haggis, a noisome dish to look at, but not unpleasant to eat, and drinks Athol Brose, a delicious drink, but insidious, composed of whisky, honey, cream and rum.
Insidious Prophet says: mgparrish, the mental midget is back. Think Progress » ThinkFast: February 24, 2010
Noise pollution is insidious says actor Randy Hughson, who brings his portrayal of Doyle, a man buffeted by incessant noise, to the Magnetic North Festival.
What's particularly insidious about deflation is that output doesn't necessarily have to contract for its poison to spread through the economy.
The very notion is ‘insidious, unworthy, diabolical, appalling, shrill and hysterical’.
Read on, because the reasons are entirely unobvious, but extremely insidious. TV Anywhere: Structural Problems Will Doom It to Failure - Jim Louderback - MediaBizBloggers
I learned that you have charged that your company is the victim of an insidious conspiracy.
It was all an insidious and diabolical mistake.
I do really think you had begun to like Lord Chelford -- only _begun_, the least little insidious bit; but thank you, wild Bessie Frankleyn, you have quite opened my eyes. Wylder's Hand
One insidious aspect of agro-terrorism against livestock is that it can be difficult to differentiate between a naturally occurring disease outbreak and one caused by a terrorist.
I wonder whether the greater doability of the LDR for academic or half-academic couples isn't sometimes insidious: it's not impossible. Ferule & Fescue
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. The Thought Police Cometh
Washington Post writer Roger Piantadosi called Mr. Spivak's show an enjoyable departure "from the relentlessly upbeat, carefree, trouble-free, commercial-free aural cheese spread of the ever-insidious phenomenon known to some as safe programming, to others as McRadio. Joel A. Spivak, radio personality and anti-smoking spokesman, dies at 75
Socialism in its most insidious form remains undead. Times, Sunday Times
Examples of this include insidious onset or poorly localized injuries, or both.
After all, few things can be more insidious than impure water, since water is one of the natural resources we take for granted.
‘Sending in inspectors into schools is just an ill-judged and insidious attack on the professional integrity of teachers,’ he said.
The ability to work and enjoy the fruits of one's own labor is the very antitheses of slavery, an institution so insidious that it took a civil war and three separate amendments to begin to dismantle it. The Time For Judicial Engagement
That means Technique who loses rap battles to white emcees named Idea has guilty blood on his hands and tongue from that insidious Hollywood connection.
They practised relentless and insidious indoctrination.
In my opinion, one of the more insidious is the hijacked account scam. Round 39: Sallie Mae vs eBay/Paypal - The Consumerist
Moreover, corporations have powerful “think tanks” that work to influence public opinion in devious ways, such as creating the image of “unbiased research” by a panel of well-paid scientific charlatans – most insidiously used to discredit global warming for the past decade. Widespread Sustainable Consumerism is More Vital Than Taking Individual Actions
As others have pointed out, affirmation of the consequent is a seductive and insidious error. Daniel Dennett: Intelligent design? Show me the science - The Panda's Thumb
I see that film as evidencing the insidious effects of a creeping, dangerous worldview slowly infecting a small group of people, and then one by one destroying them.
The more insidious threat to competence cultures occurs when the metrics it has targeted no longer reflect true progress toward the end goal. LIVING ON THE FAULT LINE, REVISED EDITION
Thus the sonnet, which had been an octave of enclosed or alternate rhymes, followed by a sestette of interlaced tercets, was now changed to a series of three quatrains with differing sets of alternate rhymes in each, at the close of which the insidious couplet succeeded in establishing itself. Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia
This insidious disease produces extensive and unmeasured economic losses through reduced efficiency in feed utilization.
This is how fashion works: it is an insidious force that strips one of volition and sense. Times, Sunday Times
But what makes this disease insidious is that in most cases it goes undetected until it's too late.
These religious schools still preach an insidious doctrine that foments the sectarian violence that is increasingly a threat to the stability of Pakistan.
It ought not be surprising at all, then, that whistleblowers get persecuted using all the insidious, ingenious, devious, and oppressive means dominators in our society can apply.
More insidious than the numerous hothead pundits are the far more numerous reporters who can't stop providing stenographic services to official sources under the guise of journalism.
Instead, the process of ideological self-replication in hiring is more insidious. The Volokh Conspiracy » Kagan and Diversity Hiring
The Yuuzhan Vong invasion began insidiously , with secret agents sent to gather information about the galaxy.
The specter of a chemical, biological or radiological attack raises the unnerving prospect of an insidious, invisible agent drifting through ductwork, hallways and offices.
It was much more insidious precisely because it was not defined in terms of what he did or did not do.
Unfortunately, a more insidious practice has arisen.
It is an insidious cancer of the lymphatic system, which branches into all the organs.
Significantly, even continuous low-level noise can be an insidious stressor.
The early signs and symptoms of thyroid deficiency are insidious and subtle. Times, Sunday Times
Dyens eventually left France, feeling overwhelmed by what he saw as insidious, unspoken racism.
Patients present with the insidious onset of ascites, abdominal pain, and fever.
The propaganda is so insidious in the Murdoch press you can't even distinguish between news and opinion.
Some of New York City's most iconic buildings have faced attacks by the dreaded cimex lectularius, commonly known as the bedbug and more threatening, in its insidious way, than King Kong. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
I realise now that my near Jekyll and Hyde transmutation came about insidiously, like a winter's dawn, a consequence of years of tramping the murky corridors of environmental reporting.
Joining the chorus against "flunkyism," the Washington Post denounced tipping as "one of the most insidious and one of the most malignant evils" of modern life. The Point of Tipping
Socialism in its most insidious form remains undead. Times, Sunday Times
They get deadly diseases like black lung, asbestosis, or more insidious poisonings.
Then she must speed back to Blue Triad City, compose her confused thoughts and frustrated hopes, far away from the insidious and seductive atmosphere of coelura ... and sadly, from Murell whom she must also forget. The Coelura
Insidious pollution of the soil is the main cause of extinction of plant species in the UK.
It's found in the plaques inside the brain that cause Alzheimer's disease, that insidious loss of memory, then mental function, and eventually identity.
The changes are insidious, and will not produce a noticeable effect for 15 to 20 years.
Self-doubt crept up insidiously and turned to desperation. Three Common Mistakes Job Hunters Make
In contrast, posterior bleeding may be asymptomatic or may present insidiously as nausea, hematemesis, anemia, hemoptysis, or melena.
A more insidious threat derives from what happened in that ace last finale. Times, Sunday Times
A sustained attack from a foe more insidious and corrupting than anything that had assailed our shores before; a demonic force that destroyed our mental health, that could deprave all who came into contact with it. The Evil Dead, The Living Dead and the dead wrong
The insidious history of this word cannot be dismissed easily.
In contrast, posterior bleeding may be asymptomatic or may present insidiously as nausea, hematemesis, anemia, hemoptysis, or melena.
The demoralization of the narcotist is not, like that of the drunkard, rapid, violent, and palpable; but gradual, insidious, perceptible at first only to close observers and intimate friends. Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics
The latter is the insidious inflation dodge, a piece of legerdemain that governments have been using over centuries to take bigger and bigger bites of your property.
But perhaps the most insidious aspect of the campaign for legalisation is the claim by some of its supporters that drugs have a mind-expanding effect on individuals and a progressive impact on society.
It could impose a more insidious form of control if it wanted to shelter from an opposition more effective than any across the chamber. Times, Sunday Times
We forget what these men endure -- their risks, their privations, their fatigues, their anxieties, _their battles with themselves_, when sleep -- more insidious than even the lurking enemy in the bush -- tugs at their heavy eyelids, and their overwearied senses are barely held to their allegiance by the strongest mental effort. Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive
I mean, you've got Darth Sidious (as in "insidious," I assume) and then the even-more-obviously named Darths Maul and Tyrannus. The Tao Of Sith
You can see it in insidious ways. Times, Sunday Times
There is something about them which reminds me of the insidious nature of soapies (aka “continuing dramas”) – you invite them in for half an hour and they never leave. The New Spin on Reality TV « Write Anything
Paradoxically, community councils are an insidious form of planning since they stem indirectly from the dominant ideology.
Far more insidious is Lieberman, with his coprophagic grin and his profession of good will. Lieberman’s Slap on the Wrist - Swampland - TIME.com
They are also the insidious individuals who rampaged outside a dying man's home, and have taken advantage of a gullible collaborator regarding illegal billboards on his front lawn.
And as Sith commander Yaru Korsin grapples with the looming loss of the paradise he rules and the race his people have come to depend upon, he must confront the dark possibility that the catastrophe may not be cruel fate but insidious sabotage. February 2010
She appreciates its particular qualities without allowing herself to be seduced by its insidious charms.
She had been fighting this insidious physical attraction, trying to deny its existence ever since they'd met.
Pleasure, of the cafe and cabaret and boulevard kind, the sort of thing that gave Berlin the aspect of the gayest capital in Europe within the last decade, that is the insidious leaven that will help to denationalise London. When William Came
But with cuts for capital expenditure and the insidious effects of inflation, flat cash looks more and more like putting science on the back burner. Times, Sunday Times
It was an edifice built in times when human constitutions were damp-proof, when shelter from the boisterous was all that men thought of in choosing a dwelling-place, the insidious being beneath their notice; and its hollow site was an ocular reminder, by its unfitness for modern lives, of the fragility to which these have declined. The Woodlanders
The changes are insidious, and will not produce a noticeable effect for 15 to 20 years.
Note that underinsurance has a more insidious effect than you might have thought. Times, Sunday Times
Insidious Prophet says: jimmywests real position is bending over and grabbing his ankles in front of the drugster, Rush. Think Progress » Poll Shows Palin’s Unfavorability Ratings At All-Time High As Broder Extols Her ‘Populist’ Appeal
We learned that fascism insidiously permeates all human structures. G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That
Then there are those damning insidious remarks of Libyan dictator Col. Muammar Gaddafi thanking, among others, the Queen, Prince Andrew (a so-called "Special Representative" for British trade) and Brown for their assistance, as well as open admissions by British trade experts as to the "helpfulness" of the release, leaving many to conclude, despite denials, that the deal was done in exchange for Libyan oil. Vicky Ward: Why Britain Should Apologize for Releasing the Lockerbie Killer -- and Why it Won't
Not to mention that, where the moral decree is underpinned by the assertion of a power of official sanction, this is clearly an insidious mechanism of investing authority in religious hierarchs. Outer Alliance Pride Day
Barely two months later, the insidious disease had invaded Carol's lungs and brain.
But liberty is abused in an equally insidious way when accusers conflate apostasy with heresy—by alleging that somebody claiming to be a Muslim has erred by advancing false interpretations.
A more insidious threat derives from what happened in that ace last finale. Times, Sunday Times
Silently and stealthily this insidious, progressive disease has taken over.
Even more insidious, though, is the rise in polyamory. Times, Sunday Times
In its own insidious way, the movie exerts an oneiric pull, as hypnotic as the sight of Skull Island from the deck of the fogbound Venture.
In this manner, AIDS appeared insidiously and mystified doctors and scientists alike.
The scandal-mongering of the late '90s was extremely insidious, and it has already given us quite a few fine movies.
In its own insidious way, the movie exerts an oneiric pull, as hypnotic as the sight of Skull Island from the deck of the fogbound Venture.
The more insidious threat to competence cultures occurs when the metrics it has targeted no longer reflect true progress toward the end goal. LIVING ON THE FAULT LINE, REVISED EDITION
That effect is insidious but hardly subtle, and it is certainly not in the public interest. Times, Sunday Times
Increases in childhood obesity and insidious health problems are, we suspect, linked to an increased consumption of junk food.
Her curiosity brings her close to rather insidious men or hysterical women as she gradually understands what it is to be'independent'. The Times Literary Supplement
Her curiosity brings her close to rather insidious men or hysterical women as she gradually understands what it is to be'independent'. The Times Literary Supplement
Can you come up with any explanation for this, or is it just too insidious for language to express? jow blow Says: Matthew Yglesias » Passing Costs on to Consumers
One or two other insidious pests have crept almost unnoticed into my garden this month including blackfly, which have infested the tall flowering stems of the cardoons.
Yet the incursions on free speech can be insidious and imperceptible.
The disease has an insidious onset and presents with fever, malaise and weakness.
What makes Huffington Post more insidious is the way they can buy of dissent readily by giving an organization their own blog. On Gaza: Huffington Post Takes Cues From Fox News « Antiwar.com Blog
IT is an abominable, insidious, and wholly unnecessary piece of legislation that ought never to have been conceived, far less passed by both Houses of Parliament and put into the statute books of this country.
The early signs and symptoms of thyroid deficiency are insidious and subtle. Times, Sunday Times
During an interview with George Stephanopoulos of ABC News which aired Sunday September 7, 2009, Barack Obama bemoaned what he claimed were insidious Republican attempts to "promulgate," falsely, his "Muslim connections. YID With LID
He does not wear his silks and sables to accurately represent his status, nor does he dress sumptuously to insidiously advance himself.
Hunt's bold innovation is to bring that "black dog" to furry life as an insistent, insidious and enervating presence, sometimes known as Black Pat and sometimes - taking the name of Churchill's home - as Mr. Chartwell. Book World: 'Mr. Chartwell' reviewed by Ron Charles
She said it also found that ageism was a particularly insidious form of discrimination and did not just target the elderly, but simply those who were older than others.
He invented the nephelometer and demonstrated the insidious effect of occluded moisture in gases and solids. Theodore W. Richards - Biography
The common image of workplace bullying may be a manager shouting and bawling at a subordinate, but in reality the targeting is often much more subtle and insidious.
The change may have progressed insidiously and stealthily, having slowly and almost imperceptibly induced important molecular modifications in the delicate vesicular neurine of the brain, ultimately resulting in some aberration of the ideas, alteration of the affections, or perversion of the propensities or instincts .... Lady Byron Vindicated
I have no horrific sexual episodes that would only emerge through insidious regression therapy.
It is also surreptitious and insidious discrimination.
Share ramping is an evil and insidious force within any economy.
They are out to get him -- a vast network of terrorist professors, angry liberal operatives and comsymp cultural elites; the Cornel Wests, George Soroses, the "creatures" at Media Matters, and of course, the "Blumenthal left;" all of them conspiring to advance an insidious plot to sabotage his ambitions, unleash black looters and suicide bombers on the Heartland, and blacklist his allies. Max Blumenthal: The Demons of David Horowitz
Joel slummed inside the insidious bowels of some Chinese gadget sweatshops, scheduled a voyage on the world's largest cruise liner and looked at some faux skylights capable of programmable lighting. Boing Boing
Which of these methods does more lasting harm, the malignly blunt or the well-meaningly insidious? 'Rhymes With Fagin'
The judge will refrain from any references to his quill, or his gavel, or his pikestaff, and allow the defendant to be released to spread its insidious gospel.
Probably because they have been around for such a long time they have been able to hone their sound, smooth out the jagged edges in order to produce, insidious, hooky type pop tunes that lodge inside your brain.
But I fear the most insidious is because people think that changing their lightbulbs and sorting their recyclables counts as “doing your bit”. 2009 March 12 | Serendipity
As patterns of DNA code replace external traits as objects of study, essentialist projects might become even more insidious.
Particularly insidious is the unobtrusive process of grooming for partnership, as revealed in the survey.
The result looked like an insidious, grey-green growth lopped off an otherwise healthy young tree to protect its trunk.
There is no sense of shame, no moral guilt, no proper consideration of its insidious impact on the wider integrity of the sport. Times, Sunday Times
For him, if not for all seekers of remembrance, there were other dangers more insidious and subtle. The Broken God
The current ubiquity of advertising is certainly one of its most subtle and insidious properties.
I had never seen so many insidious, self-seeking agendas.
I whirl round to see Shaun standing several feet away from me, smiling that insidious smile of his.
The most insidious form of censorship is self-censorship.
It need by no means be obvious: it can be insidious and subtle.
Onset is insidious and course is slowly progressive. Psychiatric manifestations occur early and include social inappropriateness, disinhibition, delusions, ritualistic behavior, and mood disorders.
My nostrils had discerned the insidious whiff of cigarette smoke, and, sure enough, a dark corner revealed a few glorious, glowing tips.
The obstruction and harassment is subtle but insidious and seriously affects the ability of the aid agencies to do their job.
-- Lecointre, our old Draper of Versailles, in these questionable circumstances, sees nothing he can do so safe as rise, 'insidiously' or not insidiously, and move, according to established wont, that the Robespierre Speech be 'printed and sent to the Departments.' The French Revolution
He spoke of him afterwards as “that amphibolous being sitting calmly and unmoved on the throne of amphibology, while he cheats and deludes us by his double meaning, covert phraseology, and claps his hands when he sees us involved in his insidious figures of speech, as a spider rejoices over a captured fly.” Luther and Other Leaders of the Reformation
Probably because they have been around for such a long time they have been able to hone their sound, smooth out the jagged edges in order to produce, insidious, hooky type pop tunes that lodge inside your brain.
Among the many wiles exposed are big pharma's use of contract research organisations to exert undue influence over clinical research and its insidious seduction of doctors.
Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government. Advice to Our Next President, From Our First President
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. The Volokh Conspiracy » Ninth Circuit Denies Rehearing in Al-Kidd v. Ashcroft
Classically, the symptom appears insidiously as dysphagia and progresses slowly to become painful.
But…if the beltway characters, pundits, talking heads and so called journalists continue their insidious brand of hypocritical and un-comely rectitudinous invective toward la Hil, I shall be inclined to support her, in her, albeit seemingly opportunistic quest, for the Democratic nomination for president. Firedoglake » Clinton Rules

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