How to Use insidious in a Sentence

insidious

adjective

• Most people with this insidious disease have no idea that they are infected.
• Still wheelchair-bound, Sharma couldn’t help but feel insidious thoughts creeping in — the very same thoughts that sought to hold him back from his goals.
  — Melanie Fine, Forbes, 6 May 2021
• The popular artist’s memoir reckons with mental health as well as the insidious ways men affect the lives of women.
  — The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2024
• The established, false metrics of self-worth are insidious and serpentine.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2021
• Misogyny is insidious and takes many forms in our culture, but making fun of someone for posting Minion memes is not one of them.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 30 Apr. 2021
• Good on voters for recognizing the quality of his insidious work.
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2024
• This represents a relatively easy fix to a deeply insidious problem.
  — Rebecca Dixon For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 6 Apr. 2021
• But alongside all of these other more insidious factors affecting people’s uptake of the vaccine lies one less remarked about and far more simple: a fear of needles.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 28 Apr. 2021
• Elsewhere, the company’s crackdown on organizing has been more insidious, say workers and labor experts.
  — NBC News, 30 Mar. 2021
• If enacted, the law will help dismantle the insidious backyard breeding industry that makes buying a tiger cub easier than purchasing many breeds of domestic dogs.
  — John Goodrich, CNN, 13 May 2021
• Voice profiling adds an especially insidious means of labeling.
  — Joseph Turow, The Conversation, 28 Apr. 2021
• The first, and perhaps most insidious type of fear is in the sphere of our self.
  — Nell Derick Debevoise, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2021
• And the virus, as the Wall Street Journal put it, is insidious.
  — Andrew Mark Miller, Washington Examiner, 17 Nov. 2020
• Even so, there are insidious flashes of wit to the way that M3GAN speaks.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 4 Jan. 2023
• The most insidious form of oppression is that which comes at the hands of your own.
  — Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
• The efforts were large and small, from the insidious to old-fashioned dirty tricks.
  — Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2018
• More insidious is moisture that opens the door to mildew.
  — Popmech Editors, Popular Mechanics, 21 Nov. 2019
• The story kind of starts to have this insidious effect on you.
  — Roxanne Fequiere, ELLE, 5 Dec. 2022
• That was what was so insidious about the process, Albury thought.
  — New York Times, 1 Sep. 2021
• In the calmest, most insidious way, Dorothy had been kidnapped.
  — Hadley Meares, Los Angeles Magazine, 7 June 2018
• With the insidious nature of this thing, any of us could fall victim.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Sep. 2020
• Now the town is known for something much more insidious.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 3 Aug. 2019
• This recipe is more insidious because, Nadine points out, the ants walk all over it, then take it back to their nest.
  — Isabel Garcia, House Beautiful, 7 Feb. 2020
• The first is the ongoing insidious change to an ever-warmer world.
  — Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 16 Feb. 2021
• But this time, as one of the most racist and insidious laws ever created in this country was passed, the leagues slept.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2021
• The twice-monthly mahjong game also fell victim to the insidious virus.
  — oregonlive, 9 June 2021
• But as many lives as this insidious virus has taken, and will take in the months to come, heart disease will inevitably take more.
  — Fortune, 17 Nov. 2020
• But there's a more subtle and insidious form of racist stereotyping that can be hard to pin down.
  — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 5 June 2020
• This insidious disease has touched every part of the globe.
  — Apoorva Mandavilli New York Times, Star Tribune, 6 Aug. 2020
• Toxoplasma gondii is an intriguing and insidious parasite.
  — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 1 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Sep 2024