Insidious

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  • adjective. Working or spreading harmfully in a subtle or stealthy manner.
  • adjective. Intended to entrap; treacherous.
  • adjective. Beguiling but harmful; alluring.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Lying in wait; hence, deceitful; sly; treacherous.
  • Designed or adapted to entrap; deceptive; insnaring: as, insidious arts.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Lying in wait; watching an opportunity to insnare or entrap; deceitful; sly; treacherous; -- said of persons.
  • adjective. Intended to entrap; characterized by treachery and deceit.
  • adjective. Acting or proceeding unobserved or in a seemingly harmless manner, but slowly or eventually doing great damage.
  • adjective. a disease existing, without marked symptoms, but ready to become active upon some slight occasion; a disease not appearing to be as bad as it really is.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Producing harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner.
  • adjective. Intending to entrap; alluring but harmful.
  • adjective. Treacherous.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. beguiling but harmful
  • adjective. intended to entrap
  • adjective. working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way
  • Word Usage
    "I mean, you've got Darth Sidious (as in "insidious," I assume) and then the even-more-obviously named Darths Maul and Tyrannus."
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