Thesaurus / insidious
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Though they’re inaudible to human ears, whose range bottoms out at 20 Hz, the interval creates some fairly insidious side effects.
WHY DO WE SEE GHOSTS?JAKE BITTLEOCTOBER 6, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCEGinsburg delivered her dissent aloud from the bench, accusing her colleagues of either ignoring or failing to comprehend the “insidious” nature of pay discrimination, and called on Congress to act.
HOW A CONSERVATIVE 6-3 MAJORITY WOULD RESHAPE THE SUPREME COURTAMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX (AMELIA.THOMSON-DEVEAUX@ABC.COM)SEPTEMBER 28, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHTThe most insidious problem, however, is the varroa mite, appropriately named Varroa destructor.
THE FUNGAL EVANGELIST WHO WOULD SAVE THE BEES - ISSUE 90: SOMETHING GREENMERLIN SHELDRAKESEPTEMBER 23, 2020NAUTILUSIndeed, air conditioning represents one of the most insidious challenges of climate change, and one of the most difficult technological problems to fix.
AIR CONDITIONING TECHNOLOGY IS THE GREAT MISSED OPPORTUNITY IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGEJAMES TEMPLESEPTEMBER 1, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWSuch a situation is particularly insidious because the pay gap she experiences would often go undetected.
HOW TO BE A FAIR-PAY CEOMATTHEWHEIMERAUGUST 25, 2020FORTUNEPlay-writing is a luxury to a journalist, as insidious as golf and much more expensive in time and money.
FIRST PLAYSA. A. MILNEEach cachet contained three decigrams of malourea, the insidious drug notorious under its trade name of Veronal.
DOPESAX ROHMERThe state of affairs which has come about was uncertain in origin, insidious in growth, and has developed over a wide field.
REPORT OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON MORAL DELINQUENCY IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTSOSWALD CHETTLE MAZENGARB ET AL.She believed he sought her, and she must needs fight an insidious liking for him.
REPERTORY OF THE COMEDIE HUMAINE, COMPLETE, A -- ZANATOLE CERFBERR AND JULES FRANOIS CHRISTOPHEThis is a thing I would despise in anybody else; but he is so jolly insidious 240 and ingratiating!
THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON - SWANSTON EDITION VOL. 25 (OF 25)ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWORDS RELATED TO INSIDIOUS
- artful
- calculating
- cautious
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- creepy
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- on the Q.T.
- on the quiet
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- two-timing
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- arch
- artful
- bad
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- dangerous
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- holy terror
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- malicious
- malignant
- misbehaving
- naughty
- nocuous
- perilous
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- playful
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- puckish
- rascal
- rascally
- risky
- rude
- sinful
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- spiteful
- sportive
- teasing
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- vexatious
- vexing
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- wayward
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- double-dealing
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- faking one out
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- put on
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- elusive
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- unscrupulous
- wily
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