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insidious
English
Etymology
From Middle French insidieux, from Latin ?nsidi?sus (“cunning, artful, deceitful”), from ?nsidiae (“a lying in wait, an ambush, artifice, stratagem”) + -?sus, from ?nside? (“to sit in or on”), from in (“in, on”) + sede? (“to sit”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?s?di.?s/
Adjective
insidious (comparative more insidious, superlative most insidious)
- Producing harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner.
- 2007, Sharon Weinstein, Ada Lawrence Plumer, Principles and practice of intravenous therapy
- The nurse always must be alert to signs of slow leak or insidious infiltration.
- 2007, Sharon Weinstein, Ada Lawrence Plumer, Principles and practice of intravenous therapy
- Intending to entrap; alluring but harmful.
- The insidious whispers of the bad angel.
- 1948, D.V. Chitaley (editor or publisher), All India Reporter, volume 3, page 341:
- All these facts clearly appear to me now to establish that the sanctioned scheme was a part of a bigger and […] more insidious scheme which was to hoodwink the creditors and to firmly establish and consolidate the position […]
- 1969, Dorothy Brewster, John Angus Burrell, Dead reckonings in fiction
- The atmosphere of this insidious city comes out to meet him the moment he touches the European shore; for in London he meets Maria Gostrey just over from France.
- 2005, Anita Desai, Voices in the City, page 189:
- This seemed to her the worst defilement into which this insidious city had cheated her and in her agitation, she nearly ran into the latrine, […]
- 2007, Joseph Epstein, Narcissus Leaves the Pool, page 171:
- This is the insidious way sports entrap you: you follow a player, which commits you to his team. You begin to acquire scraps of utterly useless information about teammates, managers, owners, trainers, agents, lawyers.
- Hansel and Gretel were lured by the witch’s insidious gingerbread house.
- (nonstandard) Treacherous.
- The battle was lost due to the actions of insidious defectors.
Derived terms
- insidiously
- insidiousness
Related terms
Translations
References
- insidious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- insidious in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- “insidious” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
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conniving
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??na?v??/
Verb
conniving
- present participle of connive
Adjective
conniving (comparative more conniving, superlative most conniving)
- That connives; conspiratorial. [from 1780s]
Related terms
- kniving (misconstruction of conniving)
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