All 5 Uses of
insidious
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
- Not just because it made you fat, made your heart work harder than an old heart should, but bad in ways more insidious—the same as buying without shopping first for a reasonable bargain, or buying what you didn't need, or not buying at all, on the other hand, because your mind was too much on the column of numbers written under "Deposits" in your bank book.†
Chpt 1
- It's insidious.†
Chpt 12 *
- She could make a laughingstock of him, turn all his sober arguments to the jabbering of a monkey; her very appearance made him clownlike, bumpkinish; and yet his wordless righteousness, more insidious than anything in the play—a righteousness without rational foundation, indefensible and therefore mute—made a gaudy whore of her.†
Chpt 12
- It was as if Boyle were taking his body and brain away from him, creeping up insidiously inside.†
Chpt 17insidiously = 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)
- I can offer no reason under the sun why you should capitulate to my insidious suggestion.†
Chpt 18
Definition:
not appearing dangerous, but actually very harmful over time
or:
treacherous (dangerous due to trickery or from hidden or unpredictable risks)
or:
treacherous (dangerous due to trickery or from hidden or unpredictable risks)