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INSIDIOUS
(adj.) working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way
"glaucoma is an insidious disease", "a subtle poison"
synonyms : pernicious , subtleHe was completely unaware of the pernicious disease eating him up from inside. -added by naila_inlas
insidious pest eating tomato.(adj.) intended to entrap
(adj.) beguiling but harmful
"insidious pleasures"
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Mnemonics for insidious
(Tag: English) Relate it with inside as in "something inside or hidden " .
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-2 (Tag: ) insidious= inside+ hideous. think of something terrible, like a disease, hiding inside of the body.
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-0 (Tag: ) Insidous Remember the sith lord-darth sidious.He was a vile treacherous person. Thus insidious = sly,treacherous
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-1 (Tag: Hindi) inside but like - ghar ka bhedhi lanka dhaye
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-8 (Tag: ) insidious rhymes with perfidious which means the same: trecherous
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