insidiousness

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However, Lady Sloth's insidiousness is not to be debated.

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  1. The quality of being insidious; deceitfulness; treachery.

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  • One should convulse in shame at the insidiousness of such a declaration. —  Signs of the Times
  • Also: "For a philosopher who believes the capitalist system makes enjoyment impossible, he sure is hilarious" is a more than adequate subheading for Zizek!, though this phrase is especially nice as well: "the insidiousness of liberal capitalist ideology - an ideology that pretends it isn't one." —  GreenCine Daily
  • Ideological positions, especially those involving religion, are notoriously blind to the concrete realities of everyday life, which really marks the insidiousness of all ideological thinking. —  Buridan's Ass
  • In order to really understand the insidiousness of this patronising claim that the public could not accept the implications of the idea that a Boeing 757 did not hit the Pentagon, let's look at the "evidence" as presented by the ATS member that it really was Flight 77 that impacted the Pentagon that bright September morn. —  Signs of the Times
  • Our effort to fully expose the insidiousness of the "traditionalists" or what we term the —  Infidel Bloggers Alliance
 

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