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单词 insidious
释义
insidious
adjective
uk
/ɪnˈsɪd.i.əs/us
/ɪnˈsɪd.i.əs/
(of somethingunpleasantordangerous)graduallyandsecretlycausingharm:
暗中为害的；隐伏的
Highbloodpressureis an insidiousconditionwhich has fewsymptoms.高血压是一种鲜现症状的潜伏性疾病。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Dangerous and harmful
  • adverse
  • adversely
  • apocalyptic
  • bad actor
  • be murder onsomethingidiom
  • destructiveness
  • detrimental
  • devastating
  • devastatingly
  • do more harm than goodidiom
  • kiss of deathidiom
  • malicious
  • murder
  • negatively
  • not dosomeoneany favoursidiom
  • rogue state
  • suicidally
  • troublesome
  • unholy
  • unwholesome
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Related words

insidiously
insidiousness
(Definition ofinsidiousfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

insidious| American Dictionary

insidious
adjective
us
/ɪnˈsɪd·i·əs/
(of somethingunpleasantordangerous)graduallyandsecretlycausingharm:
Canceris an insidiousdisease.

insidiously

adverbus
/ɪnˈsɪd·i·əs·li/
Hisnegativeattitudeslowlyand insidiouslyspoiledtheatmospherearound theoffice.
(Definition ofinsidiousfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofinsidious

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There was too much competition and too few customers, with aninsidiouseffect on prices, wages and working conditions.
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We can conclude that theinsidiousand purposeful attacks were prompted by what psychologists call pre-emptive contempt.
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Realized: - that getting tired (a small word to describe such aninsidiousfeeling) takes longer to recover from and takes from many areas.
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A moreinsidiouschallenge is when the authentic multimer does not exist in the crystal at all.
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In this way, the past finds itself trapped within aninsidiouscultural exchange and sacrificing what integrity it ever had.
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Designing special educational strategies requires sensitivity not only to the most sophisticated teaching techniques but also to theinsidiouseffect of attitudes on children's performance.
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It is aninsidioussystem of taxation, which discriminates in favour of the rich.
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Following publication of the report, the term 'group think' emerged to suggest that a moreinsidiousaspect of the phenomenology of knowledge had been glimpsed.
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Once consciousness was sufficiently raised, householders began to take action, to defend their homes against aninsidiousand dangerous enemy.
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Lastly, there is aninsidiousproblem common to all local surveys.
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If not addressed effectively, mental health management can thus be a source ofinsidiousinsecurity and permanent frustration, affecting both doctor and patient.
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Less conspicious but even moreinsidiousare alterations to punctuation and sentence structure that can remove intended meanings or introduce unintended ones.
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The range of such thinking, however, is much moreinsidious.
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But again, feminists may respond that ethnocentrism can be the moreinsidiousfor being built into politically unreconstructed intellectual agendas.
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While habitat preservation must remain the top priority, biologists and conservationists should not neglect to consider theinsidiousthreat of exotic species.
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