Examples of 'insidious' in a sentence
Meaning of "insidious"
Insidious is an adjective characterizing something that is subtle, sneaky, or deceitful in a way that is gradual and harmful over time, like an 'insidious disease.'
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- Producing harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner.
- Intending to entrap; alluring but harmful. Hansel and Gretel were lured by the witch’s insidious gingerbread house.
- Hansel and Gretel were lured by the witch’s insidious gingerbread house.
- Treacherous. The battle was lost due to the actions of insidious defectors.
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You know how insidious this gets.
Insidious contact and arc hazard ensue.
This is a particularly insidious form of transboundary harm.
The insidious erosion of their quality of life.
But then a totally insidious thing happens.
The insidious food and water torture.
Heartbreak is far more insidious than we realize.
A plot as insidious as it is dangerous threatens our nation.
The devil is more insidious than that.
It is an insidious denial of the doctrine of the resurrection.
The first piece in an insidious plot to destroy.
To the insidious conditions affecting this patient.
A new and just as insidious abuse began.
More insidious than this first plane.
Girls have a more insidious kind of crazy.
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Insidious and coming after this nation.
And the most insidious of them all.
Insidious is a good word for a terrible thing.
Nevertheless it is an insidious and probably costly process.
Insidious our summer and early autumn.
The complaint was insidious and progressive at first.
Insidious alliances that make up a secret world.
There is a vast and insidious conspiracy at play.
An insidious evil now almost two years.
Because the most insidious symptom of abuse.
Nevertheless health hazards are now more insidious.
Or something as insidious as grafting a human to something inhuman.
America faces a much more insidious threat.
What an insidious way this man has.
This is perhaps an even more insidious argument.
Think how insidious this plan could be.
Optic nerve damage is progressive and insidious.
He will be more insidious than your pride.
There are still gniesz me in its insidious plan.
It also ignores the insidious effects of inflation.
But it is also one of the most insidious.
Because the most insidious form of racism.
They are either overwhelmingly powerful or very insidious.
Buruli ulcer is an insidious neglected tropical disease.
It seems we become numb to the insidious ways.
But a more insidious predator prowls below.
I believe there is a vast and insidious conspiracy.
Nor to the insidious gravity of the streets.
Along with a host of more insidious creatures.
The most insidious form of abuse is neglect.
The reasons given are insidious and immoral.
This is an insidious disease that needs to be stopped.
Evil is usually more insidious than that.
Played insidiously then it will seem insidious.
He began in the most insidious way possible.
