insidious
41insidious — a. 1. Artful, sly, wily, guileful, arch, crafty, cunning, subtle, intriguing, designing, deceitful, treacherous, crooked, trickish, tricky, foxy, snaky, diplomatic, Machiavelian. 2. Secret, deceptive, that creeps upon one unawares, delusively… …
42insidious — adj guileful, artful, arch, crafty, cunning, Machiavellian; subtle, sly, feline, wily, snaky, foxy, Sl. crazy like a fox, Scot, and North Eng. pawky; deceitful, tricky, crooked, dishonest, underhanded, Inf. left handed; false, false hearted,… …
43insidious — in·sid·i·ous …
44insidious — a. treacherous; sly; lying in wait to capture; Medicine, more serious than it appears …
45insidious — see SESSION …
46insidious machination — A deceitful scheme or plot with evil design, or, in other words, with a fraudulent purpose. Strong v Repide, 213 US 419, 53 L Ed 853, 29 S Ct 521 …
47The Insidious Dr Fu Manchu — (1913) (USA title), also known as The Mystery of Dr Fu Manchu (UK title), is the first novel in the Dr Fu Manchu (sometimes “Fu Manchu”) series by Sax Rohmer. It collates various short stories published the preceding year.Plot summaryWe meet… …
48Insidiously — Insidious In*sid i*ous, a. [L. insidiosus, fr. insidiae an ambush, fr. insidere to sit in; pref. in + sedere to sit: cf. F. insidieux. See {Sit}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Lying in wait; watching an opportunity to insnare or entrap; deceitful; sly;… …
49Insidiousness — Insidious In*sid i*ous, a. [L. insidiosus, fr. insidiae an ambush, fr. insidere to sit in; pref. in + sedere to sit: cf. F. insidieux. See {Sit}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Lying in wait; watching an opportunity to insnare or entrap; deceitful; sly;… …
50invidious — insidious, invidious Since both words involve doing or threatening harm, their closeness of form causes them to be commonly confused. Insidious (from Latin insidiae ‘ambush’) means ‘proceeding inconspicuously but harmfully’ • (An insidious form… …
