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Insidious vs. Invidious — What's the Difference?

Insidious vs. Invidious — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Insidious and Invidious

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Insidious

Proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with very harmful effects
Sexual harassment is a serious and insidious problem

Invidious

(of an action or situation) likely to arouse or incur resentment or anger in others
She'd put herself in an invidious position

Insidious

Working or spreading harmfully in a subtle or stealthy manner
Insidious rumors.
An insidious disease.

Invidious

Tending to rouse ill will, animosity, or resentment
Invidious accusations.

Insidious

Intended to entrap; treacherous
Insidious misinformation.
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Invidious

Offensive and unfair
Invidious distinctions.

Insidious

Beguiling but harmful; alluring
Insidious pleasures.

Invidious

(Archaic) Envious.

Insidious

Producing harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner.

Invidious

Causing ill will, envy, or offense.

Insidious

Intending to entrap; alluring but harmful.
Hansel and Gretel were lured by the witch’s insidious gingerbread house.

Invidious

(of a distinction) Offensively or unfairly discriminating.

Insidious

(nonstandard) Treacherous.
The battle was lost due to the actions of insidious defectors.

Invidious

(obsolete) Envious, jealous.

Insidious

Lying in wait; watching an opportunity to insnare or entrap; deceitful; sly; treacherous; - said of persons; as, the insidious foe.

Invidious

(obsolete) Detestable, hateful, odious.

Insidious

Intended to entrap; characterized by treachery and deceit; as, insidious arts.
The insidious whisper of the bad angel.

Invidious

Envious; malignant.

Insidious

Acting or proceeding unobserved or in a seemingly harmless manner, but slowly or eventually doing great damage; as, an insidious disease; an insidious plot.

Invidious

Worthy of envy; desirable; enviable.
Such a person appeareth in a far more honorable and invidious state than any prosperous man.

Insidious

Beguiling but harmful;
Insidious pleasures

Invidious

Likely to or intended to incur or produce ill will, or to provoke envy or resentment; hateful; offensive; as, invidious distinctions.
Agamemnon found it an invidious affair to give the preference to any one of the Grecian heroes.

Insidious

Intended to entrap

Invidious

Containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice;
Discriminatory attitudes and practices
Invidious comparisons

Insidious

Working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way;
Glaucoma is an insidious disease
A subtle poison

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