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"Insidious" in a Sentence (25 examples)
In junior high and high schools, they say insidious forms of bullying are on the rise.
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
We are working against an enemy who is very insidious in his methods.
That's a very insidious disease. You don't notice it until it's too late.
What an insidious assumption!
It's a dangerous and insidious animal.
This is a rare and insidious disease.
Ziri came up with an insidious idea.
It’s calling on the African Union to take urgent measures to stop “a growing and insidious contagion.”
Host Carol Castiel speaks with Jennifer Kavanaugh, senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation, about the phenomenon of “truth decay” — a diminishing reliance on facts and analysis in American public life as well as the insidious spread of disinformation which threatens to undermine democracy.
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Strong and vigorous man as he looks, Livingstone has been for years the victim of a secret and insidious disease.
At some point in time they may become the source of an insidious cancer.
The nurse always must be alert to signs of slow leak or insidious infiltration.
The impact on rural communities of rail closures was acute, but I would argue that the worst outcome it created was the long-term diminishment of suburban capacity outside London, which has had a far more insidious effect on rail usage nationally.
Hansel and Gretel were lured by the witch’s insidious gingerbread house.
Gashford slid his cold insidious palm into his master's grasp, and so, hand in hand, and followed still by Barnaby and by his mother too, they mingled with the concourse.
The insidious whispers of the bad angel.
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 […]
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.
They all sought the President's views on the world situation in general and the Asian situation in particular. Without mincing words he would comment on his favorite theme, namely, the insidious scheme of the international Communists to conquer the free world.
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, […]
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.
The battle was lost due to the actions of insidious defectors.
But with whom do you contract that alliance? With the natural enemy of France — that insidious house of Austria — which detests our country from feeling, system, and necessity.
‘Believe me,’ he shouted, ‘these insidious folk talk dangerous nonsense. I hear they are spouting out their ridiculous platitudes not five miles from this park in which we are standing…’
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