Synonymer

Uttal

    • IPA: /ɪn.ˈsɪd.i.əs/

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Definitioner

Adjektiv

  1. Producing harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner.
  2. Intending to entrap; alluring but harmful.
  3. (nonstandard) Treacherous.

Exempel

  • Strong and vigorous man as he looks, Livingstone has been for years the victim of a secret and insidious disease.
  • At some point in time they may become the source of an insidious cancer.
  • The nurse always must be alert to signs of slow leak or insidious infiltration.
  • The insidious whisper of the bad angel.
  • All these facts clearly appear to me now to establish that the sanctioned scheme was a part of a bigger and […] more insidious scheme which was to hoodwink the creditors and to firmly establish and consolidate the position […]
  • The atmosphere of this insidious city comes out to meet him the moment he touches the European shore; for in London he meets Maria Gostrey just over from France.
  • This seemed to her the worst defilement into which this insidious city had cheated her and in her agitation, she nearly ran into the latrine, […]
  • This is the insidious way sports entrap you: you follow a player, which commits you to his team. You begin to acquire scraps of utterly useless information about teammates, managers, owners, trainers, agents, lawyers.
  • Hansel and Gretel were lured by the witch’s insidious gingerbread house.
  • But with whom do you contract that alliance? With the natural enemy of France — that insidious house of Austria — which detests our country from feeling, system, and necessity.
  • ‘Believe me,’ he shouted, ‘these insidious folk talk dangerous nonsense. I hear they are spouting out their ridiculous platitudes not five miles from this park in which we are standing…’
  • The battle was lost due to the actions of insidious defectors.

Böjningsformer

Komparativmore insidious
Superlativmost insidious