Adjective : an insidious plan. ,an insidious enemy. ,an insidious disease. From Dictionary.com.
The deadly malaria began to insidiously prepare the way for. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Gatling Gun Detachment] Reference
Tristram Shandy, and the more insidiously concealed creator of the. From Wordnik.com. [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
"I'm glad if you have been of use," Bostwick told him insidiously. From Wordnik.com. [The Furnace of Gold] Reference
Slowly and insidiously it had come to dominate every other problem. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
How gradually it has all taken form, imperceptibly, how insidiously. From Wordnik.com. [Mr.Dostoevsky] Reference
I felt that they were steadily and insidiously influencing mother against me. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
Diphtheria begins with a sore throat, while whooping cough begins very insidiously. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother and Her Child] Reference
It came slowly, insidiously; before he was aware, his body no longer obeyed his will. From Wordnik.com. [The Beast of Space] Reference
New-York, and insidiously sent it out into the country, in order to sink our currency. From Wordnik.com. [Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father] Reference
He takes the poison from the distiller, and insidiously deals it out to his fellow-men. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
The allegations were spreading insidiously on internet forums, and he was powerless to stop them. From Wordnik.com. [Cyberstalking: tackling the 'faceless cowards'] Reference
Mena R: I know you are American, but I feel the Americans have gotten into India very insidiously. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Lydon: Real India: At Koshy's Cafe, The Talk of Bangalore (AUDIO)] Reference
So rapidly yet so insidiously was the South obtaining an entire control in the councils of the nation. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Diphtheria begins slowly and insidiously, with very little prostration and a very low fever the first day. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
"But part of the piece is about American culture insidiously filtering out into everyplace, like the powder.". From Wordnik.com. [A Visionary Hits Venice] Reference
But disease was insidiously working to an unfavourable issue, and that day she plied her needle for the last time. From Wordnik.com. [Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York] Reference
And he shakes his head, touches her significantly on the arm with his orange-colored glove, -- he smiles insidiously. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
But being chronically shocked-shocked is a form of self-complacency, insidiously disguising itself as prophetic indignation. From Wordnik.com. [Corruption: A Spectator Sport] Reference
There is an arrogance involved in assuming ourselves more humane than human that reacts insidiously on our health and morals. From Wordnik.com. [Turn About Eleanor] Reference
It was unlooked for, delightful, insidiously flattering -- a plain intimation that he had become a star of greater magnitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
As they crossed the sea, the devil insidiously asked his rider what it was that the old women of Scotland muttered at bedtime. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 492, June 4, 1831] Reference
But a thought he could not outstrip slipped into his mind so insidiously and stealthily, he could not tell how or whence it came. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
There is nothing that undermines all virtuous and noble qualities more surely or more insidiously than the indulged vice of envy. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends] Reference
The soil they had camped upon began to crumble away, too, for the heat was insidiously melting the ice under the morainial deposit. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
Over the years, such speculation suggests, the partnership between Eisner and Katzenberg slowly but insidiously gave way to rivalry. From Wordnik.com. [Of Mice And Men] Reference
Jealousy is like the snake which insidiously entwines itself around its victim; or like the bohun upas of Java, which diffuses death. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference
It usually does its damage insidiously, and many people with high blood pressure don't have any symptoms until they have a stroke or heart trouble. From Wordnik.com. [Erin N. Marcus, M.D.: 9 Essential Steps for Regulating Your Blood Pressure (PHOTOS)] Reference
"Ah!" would exclaim the constantly departing patient, "all one's nourishment goes for nothing if once sudden death has got insidiously into the system!". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
From bad, this state of things came to worse -- men succumbed to its influence, the sick list swelled, and, finally, death stalked insidiously in our midst. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. From Wordnik.com. [Solzhenitsyn: My Murdered Grandfather’s Voice] Reference
The very act of opposing this mosque is to insidiously link the mosque builders with the 9/11 attackers, and by extension, to revive passions surrounding 9/11. From Wordnik.com. [ADL: Opponents of Ground Zero mosque are bigots, but we should let them win anyway] Reference
This theory of administration eliminates the bureaucracy which has insidiously crept upon the Army, and relegates to their proper position the supply departments. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Gatling Gun Detachment] Reference
The conceit of the sonneteer is that the fever is an enemy luxuriously lodged in the lovely person of its victim, and there insidiously plotting against her life. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
Maybe, he is in one of the coffee shops by the sidewalk that entice you with their large glass windows, beckoning you insidiously with their cheerful logos and promised warmth. From Wordnik.com. [You Don't Take Names] Reference
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