insidious
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɪnˈsɪdi.əs/
insidious
- Producing harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner.
- 2007, Sharon Weinstein, Ada Lawrence Plumer, Principles and practice of intravenous therapy
- The nurse always must be alert to signs of slow leak or insidious infiltration.
- 2007, Sharon Weinstein, Ada Lawrence Plumer, Principles and practice of intravenous therapy
- Intending to entrap; alluring but harmful.
- 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], OCLC 633494058 ↗, chapter 48, page 215 ↗:
- Gashford slid his cold insidious palm into his master's grasp, and so, hand in hand, and followed still by Barnaby and by his mother too, they mingled with the concourse.
- The insidious whisper of the bad angel.
- 1948, D.V. Chitaley (editor or publisher), All India Reporter, volume 3, page 341:
- All these facts clearly appear to me now to establish that the sanctioned scheme was a part of a bigger and […] more insidious scheme which was to hoodwink the creditors and to firmly establish and consolidate the position […]
- 1969, Dorothy Brewster, John Angus Burrell, Dead reckonings in fiction
- The atmosphere of this insidious city comes out to meet him the moment he touches the European shore; for in London he meets Maria Gostrey just over from France.
- 2005, Anita Desai, Voices in the City, page 189:
- This seemed to her the worst defilement into which this insidious city had cheated her and in her agitation, she nearly ran into the latrine, […]
- 2007, Joseph Epstein, Narcissus Leaves the Pool, page 171:
- This is the insidious way sports entrap you: you follow a player, which commits you to his team. You begin to acquire scraps of utterly useless information about teammates, managers, owners, trainers, agents, lawyers.
- Hansel and Gretel were lured by the witch’s insidious gingerbread house.
- (nonstandard) Treacherous.
- The battle was lost due to the actions of insidious defectors.
- French: insidieux
- German: schleichend
- Portuguese: insidioso
- Russian: скры́тый
- Spanish: insidioso
- German: heimtückisch, hinterhältig, hinterlistig
- Portuguese: insidiador
- Russian: кова́рный
- Spanish: insidioso
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