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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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unfair
English
Etymology
From Middle English unfair (“unattractive, unseemly”), from Old English unfæ?er (“ugly”), equivalent to un- +? fair.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n?f??(?)/, [?n?f??(?)], /?n?f??(?)/, [?n?f??(?)]
- (General American) IPA(key): /?n?f??/
- Rhymes: -??(r)
Adjective
unfair (comparative unfairer, superlative unfairest)
- (rare or archaic) not beautiful; uncomely; unattractive
- (archaic or obsolete) sorrowful; sad
- (archaic) unseemly; disgraceful
- not fair, unjust
- Antonyms: fair, just
Translations
See also
Verb
unfair (third-person singular simple present unfairs, present participle unfairing, simple past and past participle unfaired)
- (transitive, obsolete) to make ugly
- Synonym: devenustate
Anagrams
- Funari
German
Etymology
From un- +? fair.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??n?f??r/, [???n-], [????-], [-?f????], [-?fe???], [-?f???]
- Hyphenation: un?fair
Adjective
unfair (comparative unfairer, superlative am unfairsten)
- unfair
- Synonyms: unlauter, ungerecht
- Antonym: fair
Declension
Further reading
- “unfair” in Duden online
- “unfair” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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