insidious
adjective
intended to entrap or beguile.
insidiously
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a word derived from
insidious.
Example Sentences
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These are low-frills thrills, and all the more insidiously effective for it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Oncogenes are also insidiously adept at generating tumors that over time become genetically "independent" from their origin, so it has been exceedingly difficult for scientists to shut down their replication at the source.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 14, 2024
Perhaps more insidiously, AI can also display biases that get introduced through the massive data troves that these programs are trained on—and that are indetectable to many users.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 26, 2023
The Osage murders are just another part of American history that insidiously depicts the hardships and trauma inflicted on the Native peoples in this country.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2023
And in Mercerism, as it evolved into a full theology, the concept of The Killers had grown insidiously.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
