insidious

insidious
Synonyms and related words:
Byzantine, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, amoral, arch, artful, astute, cagey, calculating, canny, chiseling, clever, collusive, conscienceless, corrupt, corrupted, covinous, crafty, criminal, crooked, cunning, cute, dangerous, dark, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, designing, devious, diplomatic, dishonest, dishonorable, doubtful, dubious, evasive, FALSE, falsehearted, feline, felonious, finagling, fishy, foxy, fraudulent, furtive, gradual, guileful, ill-got, ill-gotten, immoral, indirect, ingenious, inventive, knowing, not kosher, pawky, perfidious, perilous, politic, questionable, ready, resourceful, rotten, scheming, serpentine, shady, shameless, sharp, shifty, shrewd, sinister, slick, slippery, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky, sophistical, stealthy, strategic, subtile, subtle, supple, surreptitious, suspicious, tactical, treacherous, trickish, tricksy, tricky, two-faced, unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable, underhand, underhanded, unethical, unprincipled, unsavory, unscrupulous, unstraightforward, vulpine, wary, wily, without remorse, without shame

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  • Insidious — Données clés Titre québécois Insidieux Titre original Insidious Réalisation James Wan Scénario Leigh Whannell Acteurs principaux …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Insidious — Título Insidious Ficha técnica Dirección James Wan Producción Jason Blum Jeanette Brill Oren Peli Steven Schneider Aaron Sims …   Wikipedia Español

  • Insidious — In*sid i*ous, a. [L. insidiosus, fr. insidiae an ambush, fr. insidere to sit in; pref. in + sedere to sit: cf. F. insidieux. See {Sit}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Lying in wait; watching an opportunity to insnare or entrap; deceitful; sly; treacherous;… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Insidious — Студийный альбом Nightrage Дата выпус …   Википедия

  • insidious — insidious, invidious Since both words involve doing or threatening harm, their closeness of form causes them to be commonly confused. Insidious (from Latin insidiae ‘ambush’) means ‘proceeding inconspicuously but harmfully’ • (An insidious form… …   Modern English usage

  • insidious — [in sid′ē əs] adj. [L insidiosus < insidiae, an ambush, plot < insidere, to sit in or on, lie in wait for < in , in + sedere, to SIT] 1. characterized by treachery or slyness; crafty; wily 2. operating in a slow or not easily apparent… …   English World dictionary

  • insidious — I adjective artful, beguiling, cheating, conniving, covinous, crafty, cunning, deceitful, deceiving, deceptive, designing, devious, dishonest, disloyal, dolosus, ensnaring, fallax, false, false hearted, foxy, fraudulent, furtive, guileful,… …   Law dictionary

  • insidious — 1540s, from M.Fr. insidieux (15c.) or directly from L. insidiosus deceitful, cunning, artful, from insidiae (pl.) plot, snare, ambush, from insidere sit on, occupy, from in in (see IN (Cf. in ) (2)) + sedere to sit (see SEDENTARY (Cf …   Etymology dictionary

  • insidious — *sly, cunning, crafty, tricky, foxy, wily, guileful, artful Analogous words: treacherous, perfidious (see FAITHLESS): *dangerous, perilous: furtive, stealthy, covert, underhand, underhanded (see SECRET) …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • insidious — [adj] sneaky, tricky artful, astute, corrupt, crafty, crooked, cunning, dangerous, deceitful, deceptive, deep, designing, dishonest, disingenuous, duplicitous, ensnaring, false, foxy, guileful, intriguing, like a snake in the grass*,… …   New thesaurus

  • insidious — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, with harmful effect. DERIVATIVES insidiously adverb insidiousness noun. ORIGIN Latin insidiosus cunning …   English terms dictionary

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