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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 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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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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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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What ... did Morrie dread the most about his slow, insidious decay? (source)insidious = harmful over time
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"The Church may no longer employ crusaders to slaughter non-believers, but their influence is no less persuasive. No less insidious." (source)insidious = harmful or treacherous (dangerous in subtle ways)
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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 an insidious plan, if I do say so myself. (source)insidious = causing much damage in a hidden way
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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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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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You were heavily and insidiously drugged. (source)insidiously = treacherously (in a dangerous, tricky manner)
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This isn't an obvious verbal message that we automatically dig in our heels against. It's much more subtle and for that reason much more insidious, and that much harder to insulate ourselves against. (source)insidious = dangerous while not appearing harmful
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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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It's been an insidious progression, the criticisms of the U.S. Armed Forces from politicians and from the liberal media, which knows nothing of combat, nothing of our training, and nothing of the mortal dangers we face out there on the front line. (source)insidious = not appearing dangerous, but actually very harmful over time
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The sunshine dazzled and glittered, but held no menace; this was not the sun of October, that insidiously sapped from within.† (source)insidiously = in a manner not appearing dangerous, but actually very harmful over time OR treacherously (in a dangerous manner due to trickery or from hidden or unpredictable risks)
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