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Insidiousness

noun
1.
Subtle and cumulative harmfulness (especially of a disease).
2.
The quality of being designed to entrap.





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"Insidiousness" Quotes from Famous Books



... her heart stand still. Back of her she heard Tommy swearing: "It's all their damned wickedness!" She saw O-liver start from his chair and sink back, helpless against the insidiousness of this attack. ...
— The Gay Cockade • Temple Bailey
... those around them. Nor have they reason. Simplicity and frankness are the unvaried character of the natives of the plain. Liberty, immortal, unvalued liberty, is the daughter of the mountains. We suspected not that deceit, insidiousness, and slavery were to be found beneath the sun. Ah, why was I selected from the rest to learn the fatal lesson! Unwished, unfortunate distinction! Was I, who am simple and undisguised as the light of day, who know not how to conceal ...
— Imogen - A Pastoral Romance • William Godwin
... not allowed that his confidence in himself exempted him from jealousy of others. He is accused of envy and insidiousness; and is particularly charged with inciting Creech to translate Horace, that he might lose the reputation which Lucretius had ...
— Lives of the Poets, Vol. 1 • Samuel Johnson


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