insidious
: characterized by gradual, accumulating effect.
That’s the discription of diabetes!!!!
I thought you were a walking (or sitting) Webster’s Dictionary! Diabetes
affects ALL parts of our bodies, i.e. it’s an insidious disease.
wordy Jan
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April 28th, 2004 at 12:31 am
I’ll have to look it up, I thort that it meant something else, will ask
Dawie for his ‘puter dictionary….
Date sent: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 19:36:46 -0500
From: jan hughey <jhughey@…
To: Diabetics at One List <diabetics@onelist.com
Send reply to: diabetics@onelist.com
Subject: [diabetics] insidious
Have a nice day….somewhere else.
Marius Calitz
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May 1st, 2004 at 10:38 am
Fortunately I could entice Dawie away from his porn long enough to
reveal the e-mail dictionary’s address to me…..
Date sent: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 22:05:26 -0400
From: Wordsmith <wsmith@…
To: mariusc@…
Subject: synonym insidious
#545. Deception. — N. deception; falseness &c 544;
untruth &c 546;
imposition, imposture; fraud, deceit, guile; fraudulence,
fraudulency[obs3]; covin[obs3]; knavery &c. (cunning)
702;
misrepresentation &c (falsehood) 544; bluff; straw-bail,
straw bid [U.S.];
spoof*.
delusion, gullery[obs3]; juggling, jugglery[obs3]; slight
of hand,
legerdemain; prestigiation|, prestidigitation; magic &c
992; conjuring,
conjuration; hocus-pocus, escamoterie[obs3],
jockeyship[obs3]; trickery,
coggery|, chicanery; supercherie[obs3],
cozenage[obs3], circumvention,
ingannation|, collusion; treachery &c 940; practical joke.
trick, cheat, wile, blind, feint, plant, bubble, fetch,
catch,
chicane, juggle, reach, hocus, bite; card sharping,
stacked deck, loaded
dice, quick shuffle, double dealing, dealing seconds,
dealing from the
bottom of the deck; artful dodge, swindle; tricks upon
travelers;
stratagem &c (artifice) 702; confidence trick, fake, hoax;
theft &c. 791;
ballot-box stuffing barney*[obs3][U.S.], brace* game,
bunko game, drop*
game, gum* game, panel game[U.S.]; shell game,
thimblerig; skin* game
[U.S.].
snare, trap, pitfall, decoy, gin; springe[obs3],
springle|; noose,
hoot; bait, decoy-duck, tub to the whale, baited trap,
guet-a-pens;
cobweb, net, meshes, toils, mouse trap, birdlime;
dionaea[obs3], Venus’s
flytrap[obs3]; ambush &c 530; trapdoor, sliding panel,
false bottom;
spring-net, spring net, spring gun, mask, masked
battery; mine;
flytrap[obs3]; green goods [U.S.]; panel house.
Cornish hug; wolf in sheep’s clothing &c (deceiver)
548; disguise,
disguisement[obs3]; false colors, masquerade,
mummery, borrowed plumes;
pattes de velours[Fr].
mockery &c (imitation) 19; copy &c 21; counterfeit,
sham, make-
believe, forgery, fraud; lie &c 546; “a delusion a mockery
and a snare”
[Denman], hollow mockery.
whited sepulcher, painted sepulcher; tinsel; paste,
junk jewelry,
costume jewelry, false jewelry, synthetic jewels;
scagliola[obs3], ormolu,
German silver, albata[obs3], paktong[obs3], white metal,
Britannia metal,
paint; veneer; jerry building; man of straw.
illusion &c (error) 495; ignis fatuus &c 423[Lat];
mirage &c 443. V.
deceive, take in; defraud, cheat, jockey, do, cozen,
diddle, nab,
chouse, play one false, bilk, cully[obs3], jilt, bite, pluck,
swindle,
victimize; abuse; mystify; blind one’s eyes; blindfold,
hoodwink; throw
dust into the eyes; dupe, gull, hoax, fool, befool[obs3],
bamboozle,
flimflam, hornswoggle; trick.
impose upon, practice upon, play upon, put upon,
palm off on, palm
upon, foist upon; snatch a verdict; bluff off, bluff; bunko,
four flush*,
gum* [U.S.], spoof*, stuff (a ballot box) [U.S.].
circumvent, overreach; outreach, out wit, out
maneuver; steal a march
upon, give the go-by, to leave in the lurch
decoy, waylay, lure, beguile, delude, inveigle; entrap,
intrap[obs3],
ensnare; nick, springe[obs3]; set a trap, lay a trap, lay a
snare for;
bait the hook, forelay[obs3], spread the toils, lime;
trapan[obs3],
trepan; kidnap; let in, hook in; nousle[obs3],
nousel[obs3]; blind a
trail; enmesh, immesh[obs3]; shanghai; catch, catch in a
trap; sniggle,
entangle, illaqueate[obs3], hocus, escamoter[obs3],
practice on one’s
credulity; hum, humbug; gammon, stuff up*, sell; play a
trick upon one,
play a practical joke upon one, put something over on
one, put one over
on; balk, trip up, throw a tub to a whale; fool to the top of
one’s bent,
send on a fool’s errand; make game, make a fool of,
make an April fool
of[obs3], make an ass of; trifle with, cajole, flatter; come
over &c.
(influence) 615; gild the pill, make things pleasant,
divert, put a good
face upon; dissemble &c 544.
cog, cog the dice, load the dice, stack the deck; live
by one’s wits,
play at hide and seek; obtain money under false
pretenses &c (steal) 791;
conjure, juggle, practice chicanery; deacon [U.S.].
play off, palm off, foist off, fob- off.
lie &c 544; misinform &c 538; mislead &c (error) 495;
betray &c 940;
be deceived &c 547.
Adj. deceived &c v.; deceiving &c; cunning &c 702;
prestigious|,
prestigiatory|; deceptive, deceptious[obs3]; deceitful,
covinous[obs3];
delusive, delusory; illusive, illusory; elusive, insidious, ad
captandum
vulgus[Lat].
untrue &c 546; mock, sham, make-believe,
counterfeit, snide*, pseudo,
spurious, supposititious, so-called, pretended, feigned,
trumped up,
bogus, scamped, fraudulent, tricky, factitious;bastard;
surreptitious,
illegitimate, contraband, adulterated, sophisticated;
unsound, rotten at
the core; colorable; disguised; meretricious, tinsel,
pinchbeck, plated;
catchpenny; Brummagem.
artificial, synthetic, ersatz[&German]; simulated &c
544.
Adv. under false colors, under the garb of, under
cover of; over the
left.
Phr. “keep the word of promise to the ear and break
it to the hope”
[Macbeth]; fronti nulla fides[Lat]; “ah that deceit should
steal such
gentle shapes” [Richard III]; “a quicksand of deceit”
[Henry VI];
decipimur specie recti [Lat][Horace]; falsi crimen[Lat];
fraus est celare
fraudem[Lat]; lupus in fabula[Lat]; “so smooth, he
daubed his vice with
show of virtue” [Richard III].
#702. Cunning. — N. cunning, craft;
cunningness[obs3], craftiness
&c.
adj.; subtlety, artificiality; maneuvering &c. v.;
temporization;
circumvention.
chicane, chicanery; sharp practice, knavery,
jugglery[obs3];
concealment &c. 528; guile, doubling, duplicity &c.
(falsehood) 544; foul
play.
diplomacy, politics; Machiavelism; jobbery,
backstairs influence.
art, artifice; device, machination; plot &c. (plan) 626;
maneuver,
stratagem, dodge, sidestep, artful dodge, wile; trick,
trickery &c.
(deception) 545; ruse, ruse de guerre[Fr]; finesse, side
blow, thin end of
the wedge, shift, go by, subterfuge, evasion; white lie &c
(untruth) 546;
juggle, tour de force; tricks of the trade, tricks upon
travelers;
espieglerie[Fr]; net, trap &c. 545.
Ulysses, Machiavel, sly boots, fox, reynard;
Scotchman; Jew, Yankee;
intriguer, intrigant[obs3]; floater [U.S.], Indian giver [U.S.],
keener
[U.S.], repeater [U.S. politics].
V. be cunning &c. adj.; have cut one’s eyeteeth;
contrive &c (plan)
626; live by one’s wits; maneuver; intrigue, gerrymander,
finesse, double,
temporize, stoop to conquer, reculer pour mieux
sauter[Fr], circumvent,
steal a march upon; overreach &c. 545; throw off one’s
guard; surprise &c.
508; snatch a verdict; waylay, undermine, introduce the
thin end of the
wedge; play a deep game, play tricks with; ambiguas in
vulgum spargere
voces[Lat]; flatter, make things pleasant; have an ax to
grind.
dodge, sidestep, bob and weave.
Adj. cunning, crafty, artful; skillful &c. 698; subtle,
feline,
vulpine; cunning as a fox, cunning as a serpent; deep,
deep laid;
profound; designing, contriving; intriguing &c.v.;
strategic, diplomatic,
politic, Machiavelian, timeserving[obs3]; artificial; tricky,
tricksy[obs3]; wily, sly, slim, insidious, stealthy;
underhand &c (hidden)
528; subdolous[obs3]; deceitful &c. 545; slippery as an
eel, evasive &c.
623; crooked; arch, pawky[obs3], shrewd, acute; sharp,
sharp as a tack,
sharp as a needle|!; canny, astute, leery, knowing, up to
snuff, too
clever by half, not to be caught with chaff.
tactful, diplomatic, politic; polite &c. 894.
Adv. cunningly &c. adj.; slyly, slily[obs3], on the sly, by
a side
wind.
Phr. diamond cut diamond; a’ bis ou a
blanc[Fr][obs3]; fin contre
fin[Fr]; “something is rotten in the state of Denmark”
[Hamlet].
Have a nice day….somewhere else.
Marius Calitz
mariusc@…