Jean Nidetch

When you're trying to lose weight, one of the most important things you can do is eat three decent meals a day so that you're not so hungry that you can't get food off your mind. Habit and hunger have long been the basic, insidious enemies of the overweight. We can't fight hunger, but we can fight habit.

American Businesswoman

Jimmy Reid

A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement.

Scottish Activist

Rebecca MacKinnon

Digital power is every bit as likely to be abused as physical power, but is often more insidious because it is often wielded in the background until its results manifest themselves in the offline world.

American Journalist

Loretta Lynch

The 'Ndrangheta is an exceptionally dangerous, sophisticated and insidious criminal organization, with tentacles stretching from Italy to countries around the world.

American Public Servant

Douglas MacArthur

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

American General

John Ratzenberger

I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.

American Actor

Hill Harper

On the male side of my family, cancer has been very insidious, and so I'm just attempting to live a lifestyle that doesn't follow in their footsteps.

Miroslav Volf

Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.

Croatian Theologian

Samuel P. Huntington

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

American Sociologist

Jim Nantz

Alzheimer's is such an insidious disease.

American Entertainer

Use 'insidious' for problems that worsen without obvious symptoms.

Hidden Harm

Describes something harmful developing gradually, which may be difficult to detect initially.

Slow Progression

'Insidious' is often used to describe sly tactics or conspiracies in movies and literature.

Cultural Nuance

'Insidious' carries an inherently negative connotation, implying something undesirable.

Negative Connotation

Use 'insidious' to describe effects that may not be immediately visible but spread undercover.

Not Instantly Obvious

 and over that time have coevolved with all sorts of species, including our own. There are actually thousands of species of mosquitos in the world, but they all share one insidious they suck blood, and they're really, really good at sucking blood. Here's how they do it. After landing, a mosquito will slather

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 the NSA's prism program what we don't think about are these sort of more subtle insidious technologies that infiltrate all different aspects of our daily lives how we live work and relate to one another and I think the trucker's scenario is really instructive in helping us to think through how those

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 to reflect the qualities of the people who build them both the good and the bad i think it's really important to understand that ai learns from us it learns from our behaviors i always you know like to say that there are no engineers in the background that are very insidious and want to make things

The Battle for the Soul...

 It’s especially insidious because it often makes people doubt their perceptions of their own mistreatment. So let’s walk through some of the most common signs of emotional abuse, to make these behaviors and patterns easier to spot in real life.

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 One commentator said she looks like she's relaxing and on vacation while everyone else is doing work. So pretending you don't care about what people wear can turn into just a more subtle and insidious form of dress code.

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 an influence on that particular sector of the economy which then has a ripple effect on other parts of the agricultural economy as well and an insidious new threat to the world's food supply is on the rise a potentially

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 question paper or plastic about neither they've become insidious global tumbleweeds wreaking havoc on the environment each year more than 500 billion plastic bags are used worldwide

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 So for instance, here's one of my favorite automatic generators of regret in modern life. Relpy to all. And the amazing thing about this really insidious technological innovation

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 and it occurs even among the most well-intentioned individuals. But the deeper that I delved into the health impact of racism, the more insidious the effects became.

How racism makes us sick...

 And here's the insidious thing. A sandbag strategy can get you reelected. A sandbag strategy can help you make your quarterly numbers.

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