On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Insidious. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as seductive or dangerous and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Insidious meaning
- Causing harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner.
- Intending to entrap; alluring but harmful.
- Treacherous.
Using Insidious
- The main meaning on this page is: Causing harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner. | Intending to entrap; alluring but harmful. | Treacherous.
- Useful related words include: seductive, dangerous, unsafe, pernicious.
- In the example corpus, insidious often appears in combinations such as: an insidious, more insidious, the insidious.
Context around Insidious
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 9 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Insidious
- In this selection, "insidious" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, killer, tangible, poisonously, trojan, otherworldly and children stand out and add context to how "insidious" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include abroad and insidious at home and ahead of insidious 5 with. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "insidious" sits close to words such as adultery, ante and aramco, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with insidious
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Racism is an insidious cultural disease. (6 words)
It’s like social media, but even more insidious. (9 words)
No author is immune to this insidious form of censorship. (10 words)
Based on Sunday’s estimates, “Indiana Jones 5” is ever-so-slightly ahead of “Insidious 5” with $31.8 million for Harrison Ford’s swashbuckling adventure and $31.4 million for Sony’s paranormal horror story. (36 words)
Of all Scobie's allegations, the use of race to smear the Royal Family is the most poisonously insidious, guaranteed to leave a whiff of stigma and impossible to prove when false. (32 words)
But a growing number of investigations and lawsuits reveal a new online tracking landscape in which the reach of companies that harvest data is more insidious than many of us realise. (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
After rebooting his prosthetics, engineer Sam Rutherford (Eugene Cordero) discovers it's implemented with an insidious trojan program.
As a successful writer, Alan understands the conventions of narrative construction and must use them specifically to thwart an insidious otherworldly monster.
Based on Sunday’s estimates, “Indiana Jones 5” is ever-so-slightly ahead of “Insidious 5” with $31.8 million for Harrison Ford’s swashbuckling adventure and $31.4 million for Sony’s paranormal horror story.
But a growing number of investigations and lawsuits reveal a new online tracking landscape in which the reach of companies that harvest data is more insidious than many of us realise.
David Fincher's The Killer, Insidious: The Red Door, Minions, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, and more are making Netflix a prime destination for movies this fall.
He added that those infected might not even realize it: 'It can be very insidious with its symptoms of headache nausea, vomiting and fever.
He is a twisted kid who will go down in the annals of cinema as one of the most insidious children ever.
Hundreds kitted out in pink started their Mother's Day with a purpose, pounding the pavement to raise funds to eliminate an insidious disease that predominately affects women: breast cancer.
Insidious: Chapter 2 made a franchise-topping $40 million in its debut weekend, and concluded its theatrical run with $161 million globally.
It is a real, tangible, insidious and serious thing that destroys savings and asset prices, and creates lasting hardship.
It’s like social media, but even more insidious.
Meanwhile, the Further lives on thanks to "Insidious: The Red Door," which Wan produced and Whannell co-wrote.
Methane leaks from oil and gas facilities are among the most insidious causes of global warming, not least because they are largely unavoidable.
No author is immune to this insidious form of censorship.
No, Insidious: The Red Door will not be on HBO Max since it’s not a Universal Pictures movie.
Of all Scobie's allegations, the use of race to smear the Royal Family is the most poisonously insidious, guaranteed to leave a whiff of stigma and impossible to prove when false.
Others suggested that it was because she grew up Jewish at a time of rampant antisemitism, deadly abroad and insidious at home.
Racism is an insidious cultural disease.
Second, the more insidious method, is to default through inflation.
So, from a purely human perspective, this people have earned enough envy to become the target of the most insidious hate.
Common combinations with insidious
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an insidious 25×
- more insidious 20×
- the insidious 19×
- insidious the 9×
- most insidious 9×
- and insidious 9×
- insidious and 8×
- this insidious 7×
- of insidious 5×
- insidious disease 5×