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Insidiousness

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A surreptitious harmfulness, quality of entrapment, or treacherousness; the characteristic of being insidious.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A subtle and cumulative harmfulness, especially of a disease.

n. the quality of being designed to entrap.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The quality of being insidious; deceitfulness; treachery.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. subtle and cumulative harmfulness (especially of a disease)

n. the quality of being designed to entrap

Word Usage

"And this part of the -- I think you used the word insidiousness of the piece, that they laid that down like a bed of lettuce under the big salmon to demonstrate that this was a longstanding, or at least to intimate that this is a longstanding pattern of behavior, which is not so."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

harmfulness injuriousness treachery perfidy perfidiousness

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

deceit

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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