insidious

suomi-englanti sanakirja

insidious englannista suomeksi

1. salakavala

1. salakavala

2. juonikas, salakavala

insidious englanniksi

1. Producing harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner.

2. (quote-book)

3. {{quote-text|en|year=2007|author=Sharon Weinstein; Ada Lawrence Plumer|title=Principles and practice of intravenous therapy

4. (quote-journal)

5. Intending to entrap; alluring but harmful.

''Hansel and Gretel were lured by the witch’s insidious gingerbread house.''

6. (RQ:Dickens Barnaby Rudge)

7. (RQ:Hawthorne Scarlet Letter)

8. 1948, D.V. Chitaley (editor or publisher), ''All India Reporter'', volume 3, page 341:

All these facts clearly appear to me now to establish that the sanctioned scheme was a part of a bigger and … more insidious scheme which was to hoodwink the creditors and to firmly establish and consolidate the position …

9. {{quote-text|en|year=1969|author=Dorothy Brewster; John Angus Burrell|title=Dead reckonings in fiction

10. {{quote-book|en|year=1983|author=Shen|James C. H. Shen|chapter=Rejoining the Government|editor=Robert Myers|title=The U.S. & Free China: How the U.S. Sold Out Its Ally|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QGaGAAAAIAAJ|location=D.C.|publisher=Acropolis Books Ltd.|ISBN=0-87491-463-9|LCCN=82-13884|OCLC=8708915|page=28

11. 2005, Anita Desai, ''Voices in the City'', page 189:

This seemed to her the worst defilement into which this insidious city had cheated her and in her agitation, she nearly ran into the latrine, …

12. {{quote-text|en|year=2007|author=Joseph Epstein|title=Narcissus Leaves the Pool|page=171

13. Treacherous.

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