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Antonyms for insidious
ɪnˈsɪd i əsin·sid·i·ous
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insidious
Antonyms:
straightforward, sincere, undesigning, innocuousSynonyms:
wily, treacherous, designing, dangerous, deceitful, sly, crafty, artful
Princeton's WordNet
insidiousadjective
beguiling but harmful
"insidious pleasures"
Antonyms:
safe, unseductive, harmlessSynonyms:
subtle, perniciousinsidiousadjective
intended to entrap
Antonyms:
unseductive, harmless, safeSynonyms:
subtle, perniciousinsidious, pernicious, subtleadjective
working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way
"glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison"
Antonyms:
harmless, safe, unseductiveSynonyms:
pestilent, elusive, subtle, baneful, pernicious, deadly
How to use insidious in a sentence?
Cancel culture is insidious, it stands against everything we have stood for since the Enlightenment onwards and that is why it is serious.
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.
It’s very insidious, what he did.
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.
It's the start of a lengthy process to try to stamp out such insidious activity.
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