What's the difference between duplicitous and insidious?

Duplicitous


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A section is dedicated to Palestinian fatalities, which deals largely with what it claims are Hamas’s duplicitous numbers.
  • (2) With [Nigel] Farage – everybody knows that he is duplicitous and he’ll say one thing in one street and something completely different in another but he comes across as though there is some sort of authenticity around him.
  • (3) But neglecting our relationship with Turkey, creating a smokescreen around our real intentions, blowing hot and cold on Ankara’s European future, promising the moon and then retracting it: this duplicitous attitude has created the situation we have today, and we are now paying the highest price for it.
  • (4) It is a strange and fickle beast, a flexible friend, dubious and duplicitous, as I was about to find out.
  • (5) In 4 patients there were duplicit pheochromocytomas and in one triplicit (both adrenals and an extraadrenal pheochromocytoma).
  • (6) Starring Tim Roth – the actor famous for playing the duplicitous Mr Orange in Reservoir Dogs – as Fifa’s current president Sepp Blatter, Gérard Depardieu as the World Cup creator Jules Rimet, and the New Zealand actor Sam Neill as Blatter’s predecessor João Havelange, it bills itself as the story of “a group of passionate European mavericks” who “join forces on an ambitious project: the Fédération Internationale de Football Association”.
  • (7) The novel opens with Clay's return from New York to Los Angeles, where he quickly becomes embroiled in a Hollywood-noir thriller plot involving threatening texts from unseen stalkers, dark and duplicitous sex, sinister disappearances and the requisite scenes of unspeakable violence.
  • (8) More widely, it is designed to portray the Ecuadorean government as duplicitous.
  • (9) He will teach that the bombing of Hiroshima was premised on a lie, that the CIA's secret war against leftist Central American governments was based on chimerical communist threat, that the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were follies and, perhaps most intolerable of all to patriots, that the United States of America is just as self-serving, duplicitous, corrupt, oppressive, expansionist and racist as – there's no easy way to say this – the British empire.
  • (10) He was clever, duplicitous and manipulative and took advantage of weaknesses in the system.
  • (11) Then take it on the chin when your boiling frustration because you can't express yourself at the ballot box is dismissed by smug, duplicitous politicians as "voter apathy".
  • (12) When it comes to Russian and US domestic politics, the worst stereotypes – Russia as a neo-Soviet autocracy, America as a duplicitous hegemon – proliferate on both sides.
  • (13) So they dissociate from all these qualities, project them out on to others, and develop duplicitous personalities that are on the run, which is why ex-boarders make the best spies.
  • (14) Nigel Lawson won top marks for the most duplicitously twisted argument: he was voting against because this amendment would “stir up fear” in these EU residents, when there is “no question” of their expulsion.
  • (15) Imagine that someone told you that your close friend, whom you trusted, was actually duplicitous, could dump you and was disliked by your father.
  • (16) Israel’s policy towards Gaza since the unilateral disengagement in 2005 has consisted of the systematic violations of international humanitarian law, duplicitous diplomacy and large doses of brute military force.
  • (17) Even if it turns out that Isis was not involved the narrative is set, and so the boons of publicity far outweigh the drawbacks to being outed as duplicitous.
  • (18) Villanova's second title is even more unfathomable than 1985's giant-killers Read more The skills in college are lousy, the best players seem to treat the games as pro tryouts, and the coaches are more duplicitous than ever – hard to accomplish in a profession likened to hucking used cars.
  • (19) "This would appear to confirm that Khan was not a rogue operator; secondly, that the military was deeply involved in what he was doing; and that thirdly, it confirms the growing concerns that the Pakistani military is not working in our interests, at best, and is duplicitous at worst."
  • (20) Though the duplicitous Pakistani Inter-Services agency helped make and mould them, there's scant double-dealing in the way they fight now.

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.