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Meanings of insidious in English
Synonyms
Examples for "subtle"
Examples for "subtle"
1
But notice the subtle change in the form the second question takes.
2
That said; a slightly inflexible approach could hamper progress in subtle ways.
3
Questions don't come any more subtle than how to get democracy right.
4
Or was your question a subtle way of asking whether I'm married?
5
New beginnings and second chances could develop on a very subtle level.
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The effects are particularly pernicious for children whose lungs are still developing.
2
The dead lie in heaps and layers in the invisible, pernicious poison.
3
Perhaps the most pernicious danger is that of infant and toddler food.
4
You may not fear carbs today, but the anti-carb camps are pernicious.
5
The passive defense is always pernicious; the active may accomplish great successes.
Usage of insidious in English
1
Financial abuse is one of the most insidious types of family violence.
2
It's an insidious tactic used by corporations, activists and political parties alike.
3
The online sale of counterfeits is an increasingly insidious problem for manufacturers.
4
The wisest of plans are open to the insidious entrance of error.
5
They are right: bullying is all too insidious, and too readily accepted.
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And I thought I had succeeded in driving the insidious feeling away.
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Silent, too; the struggle was silent and insidious and crafty as death.
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China was a thing of the past, its insidious secret hold broken.
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And now he's discovered an insidious way to strike back at them.
10
But our cities are also being reshaped in a more insidious way.
11
If anything, Brennan and Keest said, Associates was more insidious than Fleet.
12
She would not listen to the first insidious suggestion of the tempter.
13
The insidious bite of the current was getting horribly on his nerves.
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Only now did I understand just how insidious such a design was.
15
It is widely perceived as a mysterious, insidious, and ultimately hopeless condition.
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This was a most insidious disease which afflicted Irish farmers for generations.
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Insidious through the time
Insidious across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common