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Insidiousness   Listen
noun
insidiousness  n.  
1.
A subtle and cumulative harmfulness, especially of a disease.
2.
The quality of being designed to entrap.





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"Insidiousness" Quotes from Famous Books



... the vengeance Carr threatened. For, on the instant a miracle had taken place. With the swift insidiousness of morphine, peace ran through his veins, soothed his racked body, his jangled nerves. The Three Friends had made the harbor, and was gliding through water flat as a pond. But David did not know why the change had come. He ...
— The Boy Scout and Other Stories for Boys • Richard Harding Davis
... of the feline race; but their fur is longer than that of others, and they bear a greater resemblance to leopards than to lions. The idea of majesty is not connected with them, but they are celebrated for grace, elegance, suppleness, and insidiousness. There is yet a wild species in existence, which inhabits the mountainous and wooded districts of the northern part of England, and also Scotland, where it used formerly to be very abundant. It is scarcely necessary to give a ...
— Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals • R. Lee


Words linked to "Insidiousness" :   perfidiousness, harmfulness, injuriousness, perfidy, insidious, treachery


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