Sample Sentences forinsidious (editor-reviewed)
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The debt grew insidiously--just a little at a time and always for a good purpose. (source)insidiously = in a manner not appearing dangerous, but actually very harmful over time
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We've grown accustomed to spending more than we earn, but the increasing debt is an insidious problem.insidious = not appearing dangerous, but actually very harmful over time
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I suspect Haymitch initially, but then there's a more insidious fear that the Capitol may by monitoring and confining me. (source)insidious = treacherous (hidden danger)
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I imagined the tumor metastasizing into my own bones, boring holes into my skeleton, a slithering eel of insidious intent. (source)insidious = treacherous
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It's an insidious plan, if I do say so myself. (source)insidious = causing much damage in a hidden way
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What ... did Morrie dread the most about his slow, insidious decay? (source)insidious = harmful over time
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I know I have changed too, the stubbornly growing paunch, the just-as-determined retreat of the hairline, but the decline of one's own body is incremental, as nearly imperceptible as it is insidious. (source)insidious = harmful over time (even though it doesn't appear that way as it's happening)
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The toxin does the deed insidiously, indirectly, by inhibiting an enzyme essential to glycoprotein metabolism. (source)insidiously = in dangerous in a non-obvious way
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If a miner got into enough debt with a company store, the company stopped paying the miner with U.S. dollars and issued his pay in the form of scrip--company money good only in the company store. It was an insidious system. (source)insidious = not appearing dangerous, but actually very harmful over time
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I saw myself transforming like a werewolf, a mutant tag of DNA suddenly triggered, replicating itself insidiously into a syndrome, a cluster of telltale Chinese behaviors, all those things my mother did to embarrass me... (source)insidiously = in a harmful (perhaps tricky manner)
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It's insidious. (source)insidious = not appearing dangerous, but actually very harmful over time
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The real secret was that communism crept into Kerala insidiously. As a reformist movement that never overtly questioned the traditional values... (source)insidiously = in a manner that did not appear dangerous, but was actually very harmful over time
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The insidious revolt led by Buck had destroyed the solidarity of the team. (source)insidious = very harmful over time
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Henry Jekyll stood at times aghast before the acts of Edward Hyde; but the situation was apart from ordinary laws, and insidiously relaxed the grasp of conscience. (source)insidiously = in a dangerous, tricky manner
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They've already been screened for anything insidious. (source)insidious = treacherous (dangerous due to trickery or from hidden or unpredictable risks)
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You were heavily and insidiously drugged. (source)insidiously = treacherously (in a dangerous, tricky manner)
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