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How to use insidious in a sentence

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It was much more insidious precisely because it was not defined in terms of what he did or did not do.
We have already seen the insidious effects of the introduced White Spot virus on the prawning industry in other Australian areas.
Not good solid rain at all, just the insidious kind that leaches the warmth out of your bones and drags you down.
The popularity of handphones among teenagers here makes these chain SMS messages particularly insidious.
The obstruction and harassment is subtle but insidious and seriously affects the ability of the aid agencies to do their job.
An insidious bug called a Back Swimmer swims upside-down just beneath the water and attacks striders from below.
I learned that you have charged that your company is the victim of an insidious conspiracy.
I wrote about coming out in the family and about the insidious homophobia of siblings.
Today the world is confronted with Pax Americana on a most insidious scale.
The clinical presentation of systemic infection, particularly with coagulase negative staphylococci, can be insidious.
I'd far rather go down in a face-to-face challenge, not after some insidious little campaign of back-biting.
But how do you put a price on what we sell, which is more impalpable, insidious, sad and empty than the decay that you read here?
In its own insidious way, the movie exerts an oneiric pull, as hypnotic as the sight of Skull Island from the deck of the fogbound Venture.
I've always believed that anti-feminism at its most insidious gets women to belittle and undermine each other.
After all, few things can be more insidious than impure water, since water is one of the natural resources we take for granted.
The piece highlighted the more insidious sides of racism and ignited a fierce debate below the line.
Fascism is about corporatism and the slow, sly, insidious subversion of the democratic process, which you have very capably written about.
Examples of this include insidious onset or poorly localized injuries, or both.
But what makes this disease insidious is that in most cases it goes undetected until it's too late.
Silently and stealthily this insidious, progressive disease has taken over.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Flusht at the sight the pirates seize the spoil, And ravaged Colchis rues the insidious toil.
The strong man must at all times be alert to the attack of insidious disease.
The codling moth, the most insidious of all apple pests, is mainly responsible for wormy apples.
They recognise the secret and insidious influences of the Jesuit, and deprecate it.
Spelvin had begun to suspect there was something crooked going on, which made him easy meat for my insidious advances.
It is so insidious and speciously good, that it has found its way, like an angel of light, to the best hearts and holiest places.
It demands too much of mere memory, imitativeness, and the insidious willingness to absorb other people's ideas.
Remember that it is easiest to leap from one register to a higher, a stepwise ascent being an insidious snare.
This petition was an insidious blow at one of the most important of our industries.
Hands down, chin protruded, he advanced on his opponent with the slow, insidious movement of the street fighter.
His delighted vanity found in it the most insidious of compliments, as she had intended.
Of all mortal instincts, the possessive instinct is the most insidious and most evil.
By subtle means, insidious as the breath of nard, corruption of primeval sin was spread from race to race.
She put Count Albert on his guard against this insidious enemy.
Persuasive is the voice of Vice, That spreads the insidious snare.
Self-pity is the surest, yet the most insidious foe to self-poise.
It was endued with a personality feminine, insidious and persuasive.
The development is insidious, and the etiology is not known.
There was scrub and long grass all about us, and I did not feel safe from their insidious approach.
He passes his existence, however, staving off insidious questions.
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