Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being insidious; deceitfulness; treachery.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A subtle and cumulative harmfulness, especially of a disease.
- noun the quality of being designed to entrap.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
surreptitious harmfulness , quality ofentrapment , ortreacherousness ; thecharacteristic of beinginsidious .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun subtle and cumulative harmfulness (especially of a disease)
- noun the quality of being designed to entrap
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Examples
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And this part of the -- I think you used the word insidiousness of the piece, that they laid that down like a bed of lettuce under the big salmon to demonstrate that this was a longstanding, or at least to intimate that this is a longstanding pattern of behavior, which is not so.
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My mind wasn't changed but my eyes were opened to the insidiousness of the corporate lobby.
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The insidiousness of the recent TV show "Saturday Hunter," starring loathsome religious Jews, would have made Hitler weep tears of joy.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper: Their Denial And Our Silence Mock International Holocaust Memorial Day Rabbi Abraham Cooper 2012
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The insidiousness of the recent TV show "Saturday Hunter," starring loathsome religious Jews, would have made Hitler weep tears of joy.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper: Their Denial And Our Silence Mock International Holocaust Memorial Day Rabbi Abraham Cooper 2012
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The insidiousness of the recent TV show "Saturday Hunter," starring loathsome religious Jews, would have made Hitler weep tears of joy.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper: Their Denial And Our Silence Mock International Holocaust Memorial Day Rabbi Abraham Cooper 2012
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That something like his could still be written, and by a woman, seems to me the ultimate insidiousness - it sends a message to girls (the series is aimed at YA) that that is how they should want to be to get what they want.
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Though the government is to blame, it may be the emerging capitalist class that receives the blame: Keynes also stressed the particular insidiousness of the confusion over the causes of inflation.
Rodrik and Economic Policy Reform, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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QUESTION: With the insidiousness of the radicalisation of young Australians, how much of a threat is that home grown terrorist?
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"Oh.Ok. That would explain the insidiousness of this malware."
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"Oh.Ok. That would explain the insidiousness of this malware."
Tila Tequila Is Ruining My Life Lisa Roth 2010
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