See insidious in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "2007, Joseph Epstein, Narcissus Leaves the Pool, page 171:",
"text": "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.",
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"text": "The insidious whispers of the bad angel.",
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},
{
"ref": "1948, D.V. Chitaley (editor or publisher), All India Reporter, volume 3, page 341",
"text": "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 […]"
},
{
"ref": "1969, Dorothy Brewster, John Angus Burrell, Dead reckonings in fiction:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1983, James C. H. Shen, “Rejoining the Government”, in Robert Myers, editor, The U.S. & Free China: How the U.S. Sold Out Its Ally, Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books Ltd., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 28:",
"text": "They all sought the President's views on the world situation in general and the Asian situation in particular. Without mincing words he would comment on his favorite theme, namely, the insidious scheme of the international Communists to conquer the free world.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2005, Anita Desai, Voices in the City, page 189",
"text": "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, […]"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Joseph Epstein, Narcissus Leaves the Pool, page 171:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"text": "Hansel and Gretel were lured by the witch’s insidious gingerbread house."
}
],
"glosses": [
"Intending to entrap; alluring but harmful."
],
"links": [
[
"entrap",
"entrap"
],
[
"alluring",
"alluring"
],
[
"harmful",
"harmful"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English nonstandard terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1858, Phineas Camp Headley, The life of the Empress Josephine: first wife of Napoleon:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1912, Ralph Straus, The prison without a wall:",
"text": "‘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…’",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"text": "The battle was lost due to the actions of insidious defectors.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Treacherous."
],
"links": [
[
"Treacherous",
"treacherous"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(nonstandard) Treacherous."
],
"tags": [
"nonstandard"
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/ɪnˈsɪdi.əs/"
},
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{
"rhymes": "-ɪdiəs"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "neng",
"sense": "producing serious harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner",
"word": "նենգ"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kovaren",
"sense": "producing serious harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner",
"word": "коварен"
},
{
"code": "zh",
"lang": "Chinese",
"sense": "producing serious harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner",
"word": "隐匿的，不知不觉间加剧的"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "producing serious harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner",
"word": "sluipend"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "producing serious harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner",
"word": "verraderlijk"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "producing serious harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner",
"word": "insida"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "producing serious harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner",
"word": "salakavala"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "producing serious harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner",
"word": "insidieux"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "producing serious harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner",
"word": "schleichend"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "producing serious harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner",
"word": "insidioso"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "dael bɑɲcʰaot",
"sense": "producing serious harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner",
"word": "ដែលបញ្ឆោត"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "producing serious harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner",
"word": "insidiosus"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "podmolen",
"sense": "producing serious harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner",
"word": "подмолен"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "producing serious harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner",
"word": "toropuku"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "asmak",
"sense": "producing serious harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner",
"word": "آصمق"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "producing serious harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner",
"word": "podstępny"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "producing serious harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner",
"word": "zdradliwy"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "producing serious harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner",
"word": "zdradziecki"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "producing serious harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner",
"word": "insidioso"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "producing serious harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner",
"word": "insidios"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "skrýtyj",
"sense": "producing serious harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner",
"word": "скры́тый"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kovárnyj",
"sense": "producing serious harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner",
"word": "кова́рный"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "producing serious harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner",
"word": "škodljiv"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "producing serious harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner",
"word": "шкодљив"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "producing serious harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner",
"word": "insidioso"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "producing serious harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner",
"word": "lömsk"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "producing serious harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner",
"word": "försåtlig"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "lukav",
"sense": "intending to entrap",
"word": "лукав"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kovaren",
"sense": "intending to entrap",
"word": "коварен"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "intending to entrap",
"word": "insidiós"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "intending to entrap",
"word": "juonikas"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "intending to entrap",
"word": "salakavala"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "intending to entrap",
"word": "heimtückisch"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "intending to entrap",
"word": "hinterhältig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "intending to entrap",
"word": "hinterlistig"
},
{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "intending to entrap",
"word": "salakavala"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "intending to entrap",
"word": "subdolo"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "intending to entrap",
"word": "insidiador"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kovárnyj",
"sense": "intending to entrap",
"word": "кова́рный"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "intending to entrap",
"word": "insidioso"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "intending to entrap",
"word": "förrädisk"
}
],
"word": "insidious"
}
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