insidiously

Example Sentences

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Insidiously, this even happens while we're fast asleep.

From BBC • Mar. 15, 2025

Insidiously, though, the technologies that mediate our existence provide an illusory sense of mastery, as we tap a screen and summon brightly colored sweaters to our door.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 1, 2019

Dreaded restraint bias – Insidiously, our brains are prone to overestimating our willpower at the very points at which we’re most liable to take a fall.

From Forbes • Nov. 23, 2013

Insidiously, Makarios ordered the exchange of notes published, thereby making a 'public issue of the impending showdown.

From Time Magazine Archive

Insidiously and surely came the stealthy trail of our serpent in the declining health of my husband, and the impending danger to the dear life of Hattie.

From The World As I Have Found It Sequel to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl by Day, Mary L.