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insidious
1. adj. Producing harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner.
2. adj. Intending to entrap; alluring but harmful.
Hansel and Gretel were lured by the witch’s insidious gingerbread house.
3. adj. (nonstandard) Treacherous.
The battle was lost due to the actions of insidious defectors.

Example Sentences

The play's insidious fascination, though, lies in its suggestion that theatre, as much as film, turns us all into furtively guilty spectators.  It is a complex crime, by its very nature insidious, and its effects stretch across inter national borders.  However, on a deeper level, the carousing was symptomatic of a more insidious malaise.

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