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What does insidious mean?

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Adjective
  1. Producing harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner.
  2. Intending to entrap; alluring but harmful.
  3. (nonstandard) Treacherous.
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The more insidious threat comes from the long-term, low-level doses of radiation that the crew would take every day for several years.
The piece highlighted the more insidious sides of racism and ignited a fierce debate below the line.
It is an accepted and insidious woman-hating attitude that leaves us all in the dust.
I whirl round to see Shaun standing several feet away from me, smiling that insidious smile of his.
Patients present with the insidious onset of ascites, abdominal pain, and fever.
I've always believed that anti-feminism at its most insidious gets women to belittle and undermine each other.

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