insidious
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Tính từ
adjective- 1.
Causing harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner.
Đồng nghĩa: subtle
- 2.
Intending to entrap; alluring but harmful.
Hansel and Gretel were lured by the witch’s insidious gingerbread house.
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 […]
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, […]
- 3.
(nonstandard)Treacherous.
The battle was lost due to the actions of insidious defectors.
Đồng nghĩa: perfidious, proditorious, traitorous, booky, dastardly, disleal, disloyal, double-crossing, double-dealing, double-faced, double-hearted, doublehearted, faithless, false, falseheart, false-hearted, guiled, guileful, hollow-hearted, illoyal, infidelitous, insidious, Judaslike, Judasly, nonfaithful, perfidious, proditorious, proditory, Punic, ratlike, recreant, renegade, reptilian, reptitious, swike, traitorish, traitorlike, traitorly, traitorous, traitorsome, treacherous, treachersome, trothless, unfaithful, unleal, unloyal, unsteadfast, untrue, viperish, viperous
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ine-pro From frm insidieux, from la īnsidiōsus, from īnsidiae (a lying in wait, an ambush, artifice, stratagem) + -ōsus, from īnsideō (to sit in or on), from in (in, on) + sedeō (to sit).