insidious
adjective
intended to entrap or beguile.
insidiousness
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a word derived from
insidious.
Example Sentences
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No film since Jonathan Glazer’s wizardly “The Zone of Interest” has wielded such a meticulously controlled formal approach to visualizing the insidiousness of moral rot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
It seems that it's not the subject matter that is at fault – trying to call attention to the insidiousness of domestic violence – but rather its execution that misses the mark.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2024
“When I saw the enclosed dock, I could see the insidiousness, in relationship to my own being as an African American woman,” she said.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2022
The Iowa imbroglio, in other words, so far reveals lots of incompetence and little insidiousness.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 4, 2020
It surprises us, perhaps, in the accidental saying of some little child, or in the insidiousness of some mean temptation, or in the emergency of some trivial choice.
From Sermons by J. B. Lightfoot
