How to Use insidious in a Sentence
insidious
adjective
- Most people with this insidious disease have no idea that they are infected.
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The first, and perhaps most insidious type of fear is in the sphere of our self.
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Nell Derick Debevoise,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2021
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The most insidious form of oppression is that which comes at the hands of your own.
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Janice Gassam Asare,
Forbes,
28 Jan. 2022
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More insidious is moisture that opens the door to mildew.
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Popmech Editors,
Popular Mechanics,
21 Nov. 2019
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The story kind of starts to have this insidious effect on you.
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Roxanne Fequiere,
ELLE,
5 Dec. 2022
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Now the town is known for something much more insidious.
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Ann Killion,
SFChronicle.com,
3 Aug. 2019
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With the insidious nature of this thing, any of us could fall victim.
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Gordon Monson,
The Salt Lake Tribune,
14 Sep. 2020
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The efforts were large and small, from the insidious to old-fashioned dirty tricks.
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Washington Post,
17 Feb. 2018
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This insidious disease has touched every part of the globe.
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Apoorva Mandavilli New York Times,
Star Tribune,
6 Aug. 2020
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The first is the ongoing insidious change to an ever-warmer world.
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Jim Williams,
Star Tribune,
16 Feb. 2021
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The twice-monthly mahjong game also fell victim to the insidious virus.
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oregonlive,
9 June 2021
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That was what was so insidious about the process, Albury thought.
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New York Times,
1 Sep. 2021
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One of the most insidious things about coronavirus is that people die alone.
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Maggie Fox,
CNN,
2 July 2020
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But there's a more subtle and insidious form of racist stereotyping that can be hard to pin down.
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Kristen Rogers,
CNN,
5 June 2020
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In the calmest, most insidious way, Dorothy had been kidnapped.
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Hadley Meares,
Los Angeles Magazine,
7 June 2018
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Even more insidious, the larva then forces its victim to drill a hole too small for its own escape.
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Andrew Forbes,
National Geographic,
25 Jan. 2017
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Second, and maybe even more insidious, is the mommy track thing.
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Emily Peck,
Fortune,
17 Nov. 2021
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The genre has spent decades echoing this insidious message.
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Jeva Lange,
TheWeek,
26 Feb. 2021
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But this time, as one of the most racist and insidious laws ever created in this country was passed, the leagues slept.
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Mike Freeman,
USA TODAY,
29 Mar. 2021
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Among the most insidious claims is that people won’t return to cities for years, if ever.
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Peter Kern,
Fortune,
15 Mar. 2021
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This is -- this is an insidious, crazy but brilliant idea.
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Fox News,
5 Apr. 2018
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And the virus, as the Wall Street Journal put it, is insidious.
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Andrew Mark Miller,
Washington Examiner,
17 Nov. 2020
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But as many lives as this insidious virus has taken, and will take in the months to come, heart disease will inevitably take more.
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Fortune,
17 Nov. 2020
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Nothing has worked out, though, and more insidious than the dating itself has been the pressure.
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Emma Specter,
Vogue,
7 Oct. 2020
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But some of this is also rooted in a history that is far more insidious.
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Allure,
13 May 2022
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When the two combine, things can get pretty darn insidious.
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Kt Hawbaker,
chicagotribune.com,
26 Feb. 2018
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The real answer is that what your sister is up against is insidious sexism, at a grand scale.
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Liana Finck,
The New Yorker,
27 Dec. 2020
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Melanoma can be much more than an insidious spot on the skin, more difficult to treat than getting a mole removed.
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Magdalene Taylor,
Allure,
26 May 2021
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Her attempts to seduce take a more eloquent and insidious form.
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Frederick Exley,
Esquire,
2 Sep. 2009
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There is no cure or even a way to slow this insidious and unrelenting disease.
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Orange County Register,
29 Mar. 2017
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