Synonyms for insidious
ɪnˈsɪd i əsin·sid·i·ous

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1. insidious

   Synonyms:
   wily, treacherous, designing, dangerous, deceitful, sly, crafty, artful

   Antonyms:
   straightforward, sincere, undesigning, innocuous

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1. insidiousadjective

   beguiling but harmful

   "insidious pleasures"

   Synonyms:
   subtle, pernicious

   Antonyms:
   safe, unseductive, harmless

2. insidiousadjective

   intended to entrap

   Synonyms:
   subtle, pernicious

   Antonyms:
   unseductive, harmless, safe

3. insidious, pernicious, subtleadjective

   working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way

   "glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison"

   Synonyms:
   pestilent, elusive, subtle, baneful, pernicious, deadly

   Antonyms:
   harmless, safe, unseductive

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1. insidiousadjective

   Synonyms:
   artful, sly, wily, arch, crafty, cunning, subtle, intriguing, designing, deceitful, treacherous, crooked, trickish, TRICKY, foxy, snaky, diplomatic, machiavelian

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1. List of paraphrases for "insidious":

   treacherous, underhand, sinister, scheming, wily, pervasive, sneaky, devious

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1. Paul Mangiamele:

   What’s happening right now with other brands is an insidious disease called brand drift, these places get new CEOs and new owners with their own ideas who don’t appreciate or respect the culture and components that made these brands highfliers at one time. We’re taking dead aim at Outback Steakhouse because I think their brand is drifting. People are tired of the Bloomin’ Onion. They’re looking for something else in a value-priced steakhouse.

2. Clay Higgins:

   I’m not concerned with the insidious lies of desperate men. I have a job to do, a nation to save, and 760K constituents of South Louisiana to serve.

3. Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

   Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.

4. John Grant:

   It's dangerous and the problem with this is that it's invisible, insidious and deadly, and so what you do is when a shark is in the water, you pull everyone out of the water and you make an assessment of what is going on. That's what has to happen right now, a sharp honest assessment of what is going on.

5. Janice McGeachin:

   As I have traveled around the state and spoken with constituents and parents, it has become clear to me that this is one of the most significant threats facing our society today, we must find where these insidious theories and philosophies are lurking and excise them from our education system.