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Перевод: insidious

[прилагательное]
хитрый; коварный; незаметно подкрадывающийся; подстерегающий

Тезаурус:

1. The insidious climate of fear hangs over everyone.
2. An insidious and intrusive pressure may be laid on pupils which, under the guise of a friendly and honest account of a pupil's interests and activities, may prove just as much of a turn-off for the imaginative or deviant as the examination system itself, and may come quite soon to be regarded with cynicism by both pupils and employers alike.
3. Such shortcomings must be set against the big truth - that today's CAP is a supremely insidious way of extracting 85 billion from consumers within the EC, and queering the pitch for farmers everywhere else.
4. If her weapon is indeed chemical, then it is as insidious a drug as any known to science.
5. But even if an immediate rise is avoided, the longer terrm effect is more insidious: a Labour Chancellor will find it hard to prevent the markets from widening the interest rate differential with Germany.
6. Low-grade malnutrition (slightly fewer vitamins and minerals than you need; too much fat and sugar and too little fibre) can show itself in small, insidious ways.
7. It is characteristic of the sickness that even the best-intentioned reformer who uses an impoverished and debased language to recommend renewal, by his adoption of the insidious mode of categorization and the bad philosophy it conceals, strengthens the very power of the established order he is trying to break.
8. But the pervasive and insidious presence throughout the novel of manifestations of Quechua culture suggests the ability of that culture not only to survive in an alien environment, but also, as it itself is modified, to exercise an "Indianizing" influence on the country as a whole.
9. It was a curious irony that the insidious dangers of civil nuclear power should achieve such prominence just as the superpowers were moving towards agreement on cutting their armouries and reducing the threat of nuclear war caused by suspicion or accident.
10. Nicholas Antram has undertaken the revision and records the ongoing demolition of churches, the "insidious suburbanisation" particularly noticeable around commuter towns such as Grantham, and the changes in the landscape due to modern farming methods.
11. Piecemeal change to pub exteriors and interiors, while more insidious than wholesale rebuilding, can be equally destructive.
12. Certainly it can be concluded that the circumstances of Sisson's early life fuelled his salutary hatreds and helped form the outsider's perspective which now makes him a scourge of the age's insidious orthodoxies.
13. There was, however, an insidious corollary to the belief that God might intervene to save His chosen people and prolong the lives of deserving individuals; it was that where He did not intervene to save life, those who lost their lives had been found unworthy.