(a.) Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe.
(a.) Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
(a.) In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.
(a.) Hard to suit; difficult to please.
(a.) Reserved; not affable.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The Samaras government has proved to be dangerous; it cannot continue handling the country's fate."
(2) It arguably became too comfortable for Rodgers' team, with complacency and slack defending proving a dangerous brew.
(3) But it will be a subtle difference, because it's already abundantly clear there's no danger of the war being suddenly forgotten, or made to seem irrelevant to our sense of what Europe and the world has to avoid repeating.
(4) The dangers caused by PM10s was highlighted in the Rogers review of local authority regulatory services, published in 2007, which said poor air quality contributed to between 12,000 and 24,000 premature deaths each year.
(5) Women seldom occupy higher positions in a [criminal] organisation, and are rather used for menial, but often dangerous tasks ,” it notes.
(6) King Salman of Saudi Arabia urged the redoubling of efforts to “eradicate this dangerous scourge and rid the world of its evils”.
(7) They have actively intervened with governments, and particularly so in Africa.” José Luis Castro, president and chief executive officer of Vital Strategies, an organisation that promotes public health in developing countries, said: “The danger of tobacco is not an old story; it is the present.
(8) Meanwhile Bradley Beal has developed into a dangerous second option and complementary sidekick in exactly the same way that Dion Waiters hasn't for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
(9) Environment groups Environment groups that have strongly backed low-carbon power have barely wavered in their opposition to nuclear in the last decade, although their arguments now are now much about the cost than the danger it might pose.
(10) These lanes encourage cyclists to 'ride in the gutter' which in itself is a very dangerous riding position – especially on busy congested roads as it places the cyclist right in a motorist's blind spot.
(11) Existing mental health and criminal justice systems provide social control for some of these dangerous individuals, but may be inadequate to deal with those mentally disordered offenders who were not found not guilty by reason of insanity (NGI).
(12) When in addition the serum P is low (which was a feature of male patients), the danger exists for osteomalacia to develop.
(13) "It's a dangerous sign to send and it limits our ability to find a diplomatic solution to nuclear arms in Iran," he said.
(14) "If older people do not stay informed about the changes and take action, there is a danger that they will end up paying more unnecessarily."
(15) "Our black, Muslim and Jewish citizens will sleep much less easily now the BBC has legitimised the BNP by treating its racist poison as the views of just another mainstream political party when it is so uniquely evil and dangerous."
(16) The major difficulty encountered with the current technique is the danger of neurologic injury during the passage and handling of conventional wires, especially in extensive procedures.
(17) My son was born healthy, strong and very handsome, in spite of his dangerous start.
(18) Wright said that he was told the other two pages of documents were not provided because of freedom of information subsections concerning privacy, "sources and methods," and that can "put someone's life in danger."
(19) Sequential birth control pills are less common than monophasic pills, partly because the "first generation" sequential pills, which used estrogen only during the 1st part of the cycle, were more dangerous than the monophasic pills.
(20) Essaid Belkalem is live to the danger and saves his side's bacon.
Insidious
Definition:
(a.) Lying in wait; watching an opportunity to insnare or entrap; deceitful; sly; treacherous; -- said of persons; as, the insidious foe.
(a.) Intended to entrap; characterized by treachery and deceit; as, insidious arts.
Example Sentences:
(1) The controversy over the effects of low-level exposure to radiation enhances the perception of radiation as a particularly insidious phenomenon of nature.
(2) Meningiomas of the temporal bone are insidious and aggressive lesions.
(3) Onset is generally brutal, as in acute enteritis or an extradigestive infection (ENT...) but persists, or else, more often, the syndrome appears insidiously over several days.
(4) As the clinical presentation of "catheter infections" is often uncharacteristic and insidious, a definite diagnosis depends on bacteriological examination of the catheter.
(5) Seven of these patients had presented with insidious symptoms, seven had serum markers of hepatitis B infection, and the four who were HBsAg positive had relatively lower serum HBsAg concentrations than did those patients who continued with chronic persistent hepatitis.
(6) On the other hand, both blunt trauma and posterior stab wounds frequently caused isolated retroperitoneal duodenal lesions where the diagnosis was not evident on admission, but in which the insidious and progressive development of symptoms and signs drew attention to the need for laparotomy.
(7) The clinical presentations were similar to other forms of peritonitis complicating PD except for a more insidious onset.
(8) A 56-year-old woman developed insidiously progressive, painless weakness of her left hand.
(9) Patients with multiple choledochal stones usually presented with insidious onset of painless jaundice, simulating malignant bile duct obstruction, in contrast to the abrupt onset of cholangitis or pain experienced by patients with one to three stones.
(10) A 51-year-old female patient, admitted with a chief complaint of dizziness, had bulging of the occipital area, which had started insidiously.
(11) A women with longstanding seropositive rheumatoid arthritis presented with the insidious onset of a hyperviscosity syndrome.
(12) Respiratory distress may be insidious in onset and must be anticipated.
(13) In childhood, scoliosis is usually insidious and is rarely symptomatic.
(14) Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection, although it is sometimes unrecognized and insidious, is one of the etiologies to be considered.
(15) This is incompetent journalism in its most insidious form."
(16) The Spurs were missing simple shots but insidiously squirmed their way back into the game, with James returning to Earth and Leonard in fine shooting form.
(17) Peritoneal pseudomyxoma has several main features: it is insidious, recurrent, obstinate and severe.
(18) Onset of pain was insidious and the symptoms were thought to be related to synovitis due to SLE.
(19) Tracheostomy may be a life saving procedure in these circumstances, but delay may prove fatal when its need arises insidiously.
(20) The early and precise diagnosis of linitis plastica-type tumours of the rectum and anal canal is difficult because of their insidious presentation and anaplastic nature.