| 释义 |
insidious, a.|ɪnˈsɪdɪəs|
Also 8–9 erron. insiduous.
[ad. L. insidiōs-us cunning, deceitful, f. insidiæ ambush: see -ous. Cf. F. insidieux (1420 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
Full of wiles or plots; lying in wait or seeking to entrap or ensnare; proceeding or operating secretly or subtly so as not to excite suspicion; sly, treacherous, deceitful, underhand, artful, cunning, crafty, wily. (Of persons and things.)
1545Joye Exp. Dan. xi. (R.), There be nowe meruelous subtyle craftinesses exercised by courtes insidiouse wylinesses. 1652C. B. Stapylton Herodian 34 All persons good he banish'd as insidious, And kept Buffoones debauched and perfidious. 1692South 12 Serm. (1697) I. 522 A false, insidious Tongue, may whisper a Lye so close, and low. 1725Pope Odyss. xii. 301 The silent fisher casts th' insidious food. 1783Watson Philip III (1793) I. iii. 290 Some deep insidious design against the states. 1853J. H. Newman Hist. Sk. (1873) II. i. ii. 92 A more powerful and insidious enemy. 1878Bates Centr. Amer. ii. 15 For them civilisation is an insidious, but a no less sure and deadly, poison. Mod. A victim to an insidious disease. |