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词根:insidious
adj.insidious 阴险的;隐伏的;暗中为害的;狡猾的
n.insidiousness 在不知不觉之间加剧;隐伏(阴险)
adjective
having a gradual and cumulative effect : subtle
the insidious pressures of modern life
of a disease developing so gradually as to be well established before becoming apparent
awaiting a chance to entrap : treacherous
harmful but enticing : seductive
insidious drugs
Latin insidiosus, from insidiae ambush, from insidēre to sit in, sit on, from in- + sedēre to sit — more at sit
The first known use of insidious was in 1545
insignificantadjective
not significant : unimportant
insignificantadjective
not significant : unimportant
insignificancenoun
the quality or state of being insignificant
insignianoun
an emblem of a special authority, office, or honor : badge
insignianoun
an emblem of a special authority, office, or honor : badge
insightnoun
the power or act of seeing into or understanding a situation
insidiousadjective
awaiting a chance to trap : treacherous
an insidious foe
harmful but attractive
an insidious habit
having an effect that develops gradually
an insidious disease
1 On Monday evening’s edition of Fox News’ “The Five,” host Greg Gutfeld brought up something that he claims is even more insidiously harmful than terrorism: “the army of tolerance.”
2 In a piece title “Media Hacking” published on Medium, Betaworks CEO John Borthwick scarily tracked the genesis of two stories that he showed were insidiously created to deceive the public.
3 Or are they all insidiously combined in a toxic, anti-democratic stew?
4 The scene, though, envelops more insidiously and ambiguously than expected.
5 Another Foster song — “Oh! Susanna” — gets an even more interesting overhaul, insidiously connecting the show’s all-purpose villain, Frederic Tiggens, as he fans the Irish rebellion, to racist Southern tropes.
6 Often this hatred is readily displayed, openly spoken, but sometimes, more insidiously, it is kept tucked away.
7 Such uplifting and PG tracks like “I Believe I Can Fly” or, more insidiously, the redemptive “U Saved Me” become nothing more than Messianic tools of manipulation.
8 Even though Sash seemed capable of striking out on his own, he stuck close to Brenda, with her casually dismissive, insidiously passive demeanor.
9 To introduce or otherwise convey ( a thought, for example ) gradually and insidiously.
暗示,旁敲侧击地说逐渐而阴险地输入或传达 ( 例入某种思想 )
10 The longing to take advantage of his offer began to haunt her insidiously.
抓住这个机会的想法已开始暗中伺机作崇.
11 Neither didactic nor abstract, it is an insidiously enjoyable mosaic of consumption, globalization and ecological crisis.
12 Most insidiously, it’s almost impossible for average users to tell if they have been infected.
13 But Kinds of Kindness compels as a deranged look at our need to be loved, even at the cost of submitting to someone else’s insidious control.
14 Reed insidiously morphs from nasal dweeb to resonant behemoth, hysterically mismatched with diminutive Dalton, whose plangent soprano and comic élan wouldn’t shame Kristin Chenoweth.
15 The Osage murders are just another part of American history that insidiously depicts the hardships and trauma inflicted on the Native peoples in this country.
16 I’m noticing how they insidiously claim to bring a “softer” side to white nationalism.
17 His theme for The Hateful Eight was insistently and insidiously catchy, trailing its own disquiet across the landscape, and played its own crucial dramatic role.
18 She therefore says, vaguely but insidiously, that I "make grave insinuations knowing that much of the evidence is missing".
19 Plenty of songs on this album don’t evolve much beyond their hooks, insidiously catchy though they may be: 2 Chainz fills in the blanks colorfully, but not always memorably.
20 So too will be its resistance to the conservative impulse that can so insidiously seep in, once an arts center has moved into shiny new digs.