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insidious

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Is it anti-Semitism, or are less insidious cultural forces at work?

But its far more insidious role was revealed, whether it was gun policies or voter suppression.

The act of erasure through mis- or under-representation is an insidious one.

Its insidious reach enters into medical offices and chokes off the free-speech rights of the people trying to work there.

But the commentary that McCarthy gets from her so-called supporters is often just as cruel, but somehow more insidious.

Play-writing is a luxury to a journalist, as insidious as golf and much more expensive in time and money.

Each cachet contained three decigrams of malourea, the insidious drug notorious under its trade name of Veronal.

The state of affairs which has come about was uncertain in origin, insidious in growth, and has developed over a wide field.

She believed he sought her, and she must needs fight an insidious liking for him.

This is a thing I would despise in anybody else; but he is so jolly insidious 240 and ingratiating!

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On this page you'll find 62 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to insidious, such as: dangerous, subtle, artful, astute, corrupt, and crafty.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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