insidious

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insidious /ɪn ˈsɪ di əs/ ?

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This insidious pandemic of obesity is slowly engulfing the entire world.
During his Kenyan safari, David was more terrified of small, insidious creatures like bugs, scorpions, snakes than of big cats.
This cult group, which boasts of 200 centers in 35 countries, threatens to become more and more insidious and intimidatory.

Kara Goldin's no-sugar Hint flavored water
It is a multimillion-dollar business started by a mom who began to see her daughter's brightly colored, juice-filled sippy cups as nothing more than insidious sugar-delivery mechanisms. In late 2004, Kara Goldin put a stop to the juice for her kids - juice... Water - Business - Food and Related Products - Sugar - Home
on 2010/09/03 Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Jerry Lewis focuses on telethon's success, not economics
LAS VEGAS -- For 60 years, Jerry Lewis has led the charge against an insidious children's disease that slowly kills muscle-controlling nerves, then takes the life.
on 2010/09/03 Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Wally Buono de-fangs web rumour on his future as Lions coach
Insidious, anonymous, often unsubstantiated. The Internet is a great resource tool. But as B.C. Lions head coach and GM Wally Buono knows, it's also awash in misleading and distorted facts, half-truths or no-truths whatsoever.
on 2010/09/01 Source: Vancouver Sun

Here's what Thomas left out: The president also said in that very same speech: "But in Europe, there is an anti-Americanism that is at once casual but can also be insidious. Instead of recognizing the good that America so often does in the world,...
on Jul 9, 2010 By: Barack Obama Source: The Birmingham News - al.com (blog)
"That (calorie increases) is more insidious because that's the sort if thing the average person wouldn't notice, wouldn't even think would have happened over the years," says Wansink, author of "Mindless Eating," an examination of why people...
on Feb 16, 2009 By: Brian Wansink Source: International Herald Tribune
The majority's approach, Ginsburg said, ignores "the insidious way in which women can be victims of pay discrimination."
on May 29, 2007 By: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Source: USA Today