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

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  1. insidious

    Antonyms:
    straightforward, sincere, undesigning, innocuous

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

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  1. insidiousadjective

    beguiling but harmful

    "insidious pleasures"

    Antonyms:
    safe, unseductive, harmless

    Synonyms:
    subtle, pernicious

  2. insidiousadjective

    intended to entrap

    Antonyms:
    unseductive, harmless, safe

    Synonyms:
    subtle, pernicious

  3. insidious, pernicious, subtleadjective

    working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way

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

    Antonyms:
    harmless, safe, unseductive

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

How to use insidious in a sentence?

  1. Andrew Neil:

    Cancel culture is insidious, it stands against everything we have stood for since the Enlightenment onwards and that is why it is serious.

  2. Jackie Speier:

    Until the ERA is officially ratified, we won't be able to get rid of the gender wage gap, pregnancy discrimination, and persistent and insidious violations of the rights of survivors, to name a few of the gross injustices women face daily.

  3. Dinah Kirgo:

    It’s very insidious, what he did.

  4. Joe Biden:

    The attack on our democracy is real, from the January 6th insurrection to the onslaught of Republican's anti-voting laws in a number of states, it's no longer just about who gets to vote. It's about who gets to count the vote and whether your vote counts at all. It's about two insidious things : voter suppression and election subversion.

  5. Murray McCully:

    It's the start of a lengthy process to try to stamp out such insidious activity.

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#1286safe
#11925straightforward
#14453harmless
#15441sincere
#39559insidious
#48630innocuous

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