I recently spent an afternoon hour at the little Protestant cemetery close to St. Paul's Gate, where the ancient and the modern world are insidiously contrasted.
In her flattering acknowledgment of Julia's appearance there was something insidiously contemptuous.
He hated gatherings of all sorts unless they were of friends who would respond to all he had to say and whom he might insidiously dominate.
We reached Liverpool one forenoon, the rain falling thickly and insidiously on the filthy town.
I am looking for that line still; and I believe the nearest thing to it in this imperfect world is the sort of speculation sometimes insidiously proposed to childhood, in the formula, "Heads I win; tails you lose.
He takes the poison from the distiller, and insidiously deals it out to his fellow-men.
Their converse began to take on a sort of insidiously familiar, not to say caressing, form of confidence, alike on the part of the one as on that of the other.
The sun was getting low, but the blue of the sky on the northern side had merged indefinably into a leaden, vaporous opacity which was gradually and insidiously creeping upward to the zenith.
If I had gone back to wake up Tarleton, you might have got to Heaven knows where by the time he was under way," went on Raynier, conscious that her tone and manner had become insidiously alluring.
He petted her hands silently until, as the minutes passed, she began once more to grow fearful of that dreadful unknown influence insidiously possessing him and winning him away.
But Henrietta was at some trouble to eliminate Serafina from the sick-chamber, holding her tendencies suspect as insidiously and quite superfluously sentimental, where any male creature might be concerned.
An odder part still was that it finally made our young lady, to classify him further, say to herself that, of all people in the world, he reminded her most insidiously of Mrs. Wix.
The threat in question, sharply exultant, might have produced defiance; but before anything so ugly could happen another process had insidiously forestalled it.
It forced him to meet my eyes at greater length, and I could already see that my experiment--for insidiously and pardonably such I wished to make it--was on the way to succeed.
It attacks all organs of the body, slowly and insidiouslyproducing the symptoms of consumption, dyspepsia, liver disease and many other ailments.
This may often occur so insidiously that it may be considerably advanced before its presence is even suspected; hence the necessity for examining carefully the lungs of every patient with this disease who comes under our care.
Dyspepsia may commence and proceed so insidiously as not to excite the suspicion of friends, although the patient generally desires active treatment, such as cathartics, emetics, and medicines to act upon the liver.
In some instances the chronic form of Bright's disease follows an acute attack, but is more often developed slowly and insidiously without any known cause.
Stealthily and insidiously "the Board of Erin" got its grip in the United Irish League.
A real slavery to city fashions has been growing insidiously in the country.
It dulls the "fighting edge"; it kills ambition with complacency; it often takes the best incentives out of life; it makes subtle assault upon early ideals and insidiously undermines the moral standards.
He finds it infinitely easier to eschew alcohol and tobacco than to avoid living conditions that insidiously undermine his aversion to stimulants and narcotics.
The way for any man who has the desire to reform some woman addicted to the cigarette habit is insidiously and gently to point out the injurious effects on her appearance.
She knew him as one utterly without scruples, and one who was insidiously crafty and dangerously cunning.
Such a subacute endocarditis may develop insidiously on a previously presumably healed endocardial lesion and cause symptoms which would not be associated with the heart, if an examination were not made.
Chronic dilatation of the heart, However, perhaps not sufficient to cause edema, slowly and insidiously develops from persistent strenuosity, or from the insidious irritations caused by absorbed toxins due to intestinal indigestion.
Yet despite all these efforts the sands creep insidiously on, and in certain localities workmen have to be kept employed, shovelling it back as it comes, and fighting without cessation against the forces of the desert and the winds.
Thus insidiously has the power of the emperor made its way into the steppes, fort after fort being built, those in the rear being abandoned as the country became subdued and new forts arose in the south.
Suppose I insidiously work up a reform movement in this State, and am shot into Congress over the head of the machine?
If it so happens that you caninsidiously mould a new party meanwhile, so much the better.
Samuel Adams, who had no love in his heart for England, was undoubtedly by this time insidiously working towards the independence of the colonies.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "insidiously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: back; guilefully; indirectly; infamously; knowingly; slick; smoothly
