INSIDIOUS
\ɪnsˈɪdɪəs], \ɪnsˈɪdɪəs], \ɪ_n_s_ˈɪ_d_ɪ__ə_s]\
Definitions of INSIDIOUS
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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Intended to entrap; characterized by treachery and deceit; as, insidious arts.
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Lying in wait; watching an opportunity to insnare or entrap; deceitful; sly; treacherous; - said of persons; as, the insidious foe.
By Oddity Software
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Intended to entrap; characterized by treachery and deceit; as, insidious arts.
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Lying in wait; watching an opportunity to insnare or entrap; deceitful; sly; treacherous; - said of persons; as, the insidious foe.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Treacherous; ensnaring.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Doing or contriving secret harm; treacherous.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Thomas Sheridan
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