Today’s “Word of the Day” is “insidious” and it is an adjective meaning “relating to something which increases/spreads/develops gradually without being noticed and causes serious harm; deceptive, stealthy, evasive, misleading, dishonest, dangerous, harmful”.
Example Sentence: Prof Heidi Larson, who runs the Vaccine Confidence Project at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, says vaccine scepticism is bound up with more general anxieties about the world and our place in it. In Europe, its insidious rise is fuelled by disinformation and amplified by social media.
This word is present in The Guardian article Why is the EU running into so many difficulties with its Covid vaccine campaign? and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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