If something is slowly and secretly causing harm, it's insidious like the rumors no one seems to listen to until suddenly someone's reputation is ruined.
Lying in wait; watching an opportunity to insnare or entrap; deceitful; sly; treacherous; -- said of persons;
Adjective S.
working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way; "glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison"
Adjective S.
intended to entrap
Adjective S.
beguiling but harmful; "insidious pleasures"
a.
Lying in wait; watching an opportunity to insnare or
entrap; deceitful; sly; treacherous; -- said of persons; as, the
insidious foe.
a.
Intended to entrap; characterized by treachery and
deceit; as, insidious arts.
Insidious
The insidious whisper of the bad angel.
Lying in wait; watching an opportunity to insnare or entrap; deceitful; sly; treacherous; -- said of persons;
Usage Examples
Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.
Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.
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Other Usage ExamplesI am concerned for the security of our great Nation not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.
I'm equally guilty of using technology - I Twitter, I text people, I chat. But I think there's something strangely insidious about it that it makes us think we're closer when in fact we're not seeing each other, we're not connecting.