insidious (adj.)

  1. beguiling but harmful; insidious pleasures'

  2. intended to entrap

  3. working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way; glaucoma is an insidious disease; a subtle poison

    [ Syn: pernicious , subtle ]

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