How to Use insidious in a Sentence

insidious

adjective

• Most people with this insidious disease have no idea that they are infected.
• 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
• 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
• But the stories seemed to her more insidious and more familiar, too: The trope of the adulterous wife is as old as time.
  — Mattie Kahn, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2024
• Yet others thought that since most guys do the asking, this reinforced the norm of who pays in an insidious way.
  — Santul Nerkar, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• Among the most insidious claims is that people won’t return to cities for years, if ever.
  — Peter Kern, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2021
• Even more insidious, the larva then forces its victim to drill a hole too small for its own escape.
  — Andrew Forbes, National Geographic, 25 Jan. 2017
• Second, and maybe even more insidious, is the mommy track thing.
  — Emily Peck, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2021
• But that does not make the anti-Asian hate speech online less insidious.
  — New York Times, 19 Mar. 2021
• The insidious condition has robbed the 86-year-old Howley of his memories for the last eight years.
  — Dallas News, 9 Feb. 2023
• Beyond the dangers of floodwaters and hurricane-force winds, people likely face many more insidious health risks in the aftermath of a storm.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 2 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024