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insidious

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Insidious is a 2011 American supernatural horror film directed by James Wan , written by Leigh Whannell , and starring Patrick Wilson , Rose Byrne and Barbara Hershey . It is the first (Chronologically, the second) installment in the Insidious film series ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Producing harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner. 2 Intending to entrap; alluring but harmful. 3 (context nonstandard English) treacherous.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, from Middle French insidieux (15c.) or directly from Latin insidiosus "deceitful, cunning, artful," from insidiae (plural) "plot, snare, ambush," from insidere "sit on, occupy," from in- "in" (see in- (2)) + sedere "to sit" (see sedentary ). Related: ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. beguiling but harmful; "insidious pleasures" intended to entrap working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way; "glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison" [syn: pernicious , subtle ]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB more ▪ Pollution, though often more insidious in its effects, can cause ill-health and even permanent intellectual impairment. ▪ Another possible risk is more insidious . ▪ It was far worse, more insidious , more ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 .] Lying in wait; watching an opportunity to insnare or entrap; deceitful; sly; treacherous; -- said of persons; ...

Usage examples of insidious.

They employed the two deserters, joined with two Acadian prisoners, to kidnap Saint-Castin, whom, next to the priest Thury, they regarded as their most insidious enemy.

SFWA, Phil thinks, the Science Fiction Writers of America, Emmet is so right about them, the Swine Fucking Whores of Amerika, they may deny that they have anything to do with the pirate edition, but their bleatings about censorship and their insidious promotion of this blatant violation of my copyright proves they want to drag me down to their level.

From this, the deconstructionists proceeded to the doctrine that language is the most insidious tool of all.

Many observers are puzzled by the gradual and insidious return recently to the mode of the Directoire, and can see in it no significance other than weariness of some other mode.

I understood the thinking of Gurjan Tor in all its insidious complexity.

The scientists at the labs had not figured on the hurriedness of the malaise of insidious maligned death fluttering like a blanket of vultures over a now doomed landmass.

The Social Harmony man had instructed him to give little lectures on the interoperability of Eurasian positronics and the insidious dangers thereof, but all Arturo wanted to do was pick up his perps and bring them in.

Beware how you misprise this potent ally, for hers is the art of Giotto and Dante: beware how you misprise this insidious foe, for hers is the art of modern France and of Byron.

Ritter brooded over the silver love-cross for a bit, then shook his head and idly asked about another item and still another, working his insidious way toward the Morphy watch.

Jud had been accustomed to hearing reports about insidious characters while he had been trekking through the heart of Nazidom, helping to block off war criminals from flight to what they called their National Redoubt.

But when this crisis has been preceded by excessive labor, when intemperance or excesses of any kind have deranged the bodily functions and perverted nutrition, when the mind has been long and deeply depressed, or when the insidious progress of disease of the heart, liver, or other Important organs, occurs in consequence of irregularities of living, then there is danger of congestion of the uterus and a protracted and profuse menstrual flow, which favors a decline.

To Alex, who was an overachiever by choice as well as by nature, sleep was a detestable form of slavery, insidious.

Irishtown to success as an advertising executive, only to fall under the spell of Siva McNulty, lovely, alluring but already addicted to Plonk, the insidious mixture of stout, brandy and coarse-ground poppyheads which brings surcease to screaming nerves and abraded passions.

I think that once a man has experienced the insidious treachery of poison, he never fully recovers from it.

Montrovant wanted to be beyond the annoying, clutching reach of Bishop Santorini and the longer, more insidious grasp of the Church itself.