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• Strong and vigorous man as he looks, Livingstone has been for years the victim of a secret and insidious disease.
• At some point in time they may become the source of an insidious cancer.
• The nurse always must be alert to signs of slow leak or insidious infiltration.
• The insidious whisper of the bad angel.
• 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 […]
• The atmosphere of this insidious city comes out to meet him the moment he touches the European shore; for in London he meets Maria Gostrey just over from France.
• 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, […]
• This is the insidious way sports entrap you: you follow a player, which commits you to his team. You begin to acquire scraps of utterly useless information about teammates, managers, owners, trainers, agents, lawyers.
• Hansel and Gretel were lured by the witch’s insidious gingerbread house.
• But with whom do you contract that alliance? With the natural enemy of France — that insidious house of Austria — which detests our country from feeling, system, and necessity.
• ‘Believe me,’ he shouted, ‘these insidious folk talk dangerous nonsense. I hear they are spouting out their ridiculous platitudes not five miles from this park in which we are standing…’
• The battle was lost due to the actions of insidious defectors.
• The battle was lost due to the insidious defectors.