How to Use insidious in a Sentence

insidious

adjective

• Most people with this insidious disease have no idea that they are infected.
• But the mental health effects of a crisis so sweeping and insidious may not adhere to this paradigm.
  — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 8 June 2020
• But that kind of formulation may obscure the more insidious nature of what Orbán is up to.
  — Elisabeth Zerofsky, The New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2020
• Donation scams Perhaps the most insidious plot right now is the donation scam.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2020
• Instead, the mother’s pay gap is a result of a combination of factors, and each one is more insidious for women of color.
  — Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Time, 4 June 2020
• There also have been more insidious efforts, such as a vote-buying scheme in 2006 in Kentucky.
  — Ali Swenson, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
• We were both exposed to violence, which had an insidious impact on our psychological health.
  — Michelle Weber, Longreads, 10 June 2020
• Based on true events, the series explores an insidious evil that has permeated society: aporophobia, the hatred or fear of the poor.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 22 Oct. 2024
• The most insidious and damaging kind of looting occurs in boardrooms and executive offices at the highest levels.
  — Sarah Midkiff, refinery29.com, 7 June 2020
• Lyme disease has become an insidious epidemic in the United States.
  — Mark Klempner, The Conversation, 4 June 2020
• Jennifer Layden, the department’s deputy commissioner, said the case study shows how insidious the virus could be in social settings — even a gathering of just three loved ones could be deadly.
  — Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 9 May 2020
• 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
• This feeling is a form of self-doubt and one of the most insidious forms.
  — Kevin Kruse, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
• 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
• One of the most insidious parts of this, for me, has been that, on the days that are better, the physical relief cedes space to self-doubt.
  — Anna Altman, The New Republic, 17 Feb. 2021
• 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
• Eating ice would be just one of the many insidious symptoms that would take over my life throughout the next year.
  — L'oréal Blackett, refinery29.com, 19 Sep. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024