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insidious

adj. beguiling but harmful; "insidious pleasures"

insidious

adj. intended to entrap

insidious, pernicious, subtle

adj. working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way; "glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison"

perfidious, treacherous

adj. tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans; "Punic faith"; "the perfidious Judas"; "the fiercest and most treacherous of foes"; "treacherous intrigues"

unwholesome

adj. detrimental to physical or moral well-being; "unwholesome food"; "unwholesome habits like smoking"

bad

adj. having undesirable or negative qualities; "a bad report card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"; "a bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad cut"; "bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the reviews were bad"; "the pay is bad"; "it was a bad light for reading"; "the movie was a bad choice"

bad, risky, high-risk, speculative

adj. not financially safe or secure; "a bad investment"; "high risk investments"; "anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky"; "speculative business enterprises"

bad, unfit, unsound

adj. physically unsound or diseased; "has a bad back"; "a bad heart"; "bad teeth"; "an unsound limb"; "unsound teeth"

baneful, deadly, pernicious, pestilent

adj. exceedingly harmful

furtive, sneak(a), sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious

adj. marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; "a furtive manner"; "a sneak attack"; "stealthy footsteps"; "a surreptitious glance at his watch"

malevolent

adj. wishing or appearing to wish evil to others; arising from intense ill will or hatred; "a gossipy malevolent old woman"; "failure made him malevolent toward those who were successful"

discriminatory, invidious

adj. containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice; "discriminatory attitudes and practices"; "invidious comparisons"

malignant

adj. dangerous to health; characterized by progressive and uncontrolled growth (especially of a tumor)

fatal, fateful

adj. controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal series of events"

deadly, deathly, mortal

adj. causing or capable of causing death; "a fatal accident"; "a deadly enemy"; "mortal combat"; "a mortal illness"

somber, sombre, serious

adj. (unplayful)

deadly, lethal

adj. of an instrument of certain death; "deadly poisons"; "lethal weapon"; "a lethal injection"

corrupt, corrupted

adj. containing errors or alterations; "a corrupt text"; "spoke a corrupted version of the language"

immoral

adj. deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong

evil

adj. morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds"

covert

adj. (of a wife) being under the protection of her husband; "a woman covert"

mortal(a)

adj. unrelenting and deadly; "mortal enemy"

poisonous, toxicant

adj. having the qualities or effects of a poison

alluring, beguiling, enticing, tempting

adj. highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire; "an alluring prospect"; "her alluring smile"; "the voice was low and beguiling"; "difficult to say no to an enticing advertisement"; "a tempting invitation"

corrupting

adj. seducing into corrupt practices

breakneck

adj. moving at very high speed; "a breakneck pace"

chancy, chanceful, dicey, dodgy

adj. of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk; "an extremely dicey future on a brave new world of liquid nitrogen, tar, and smog"- New Yorker

desperate, heroic

adj. showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort; "made a last desperate attempt to reach the climber"; "the desperate gallantry of our naval task forces marked the turning point in the Pacific war"- G.C.Marshall; "they took heroic measures to save his life"

harmful

adj. able or likely to do harm

hazardous, risky, wild

adj. involving risk or danger; "skydiving is a hazardous sport"; "extremely risky going out in the tide and fog"; "a wild financial scheme"

on the hook(p)

adj. caught in a difficult or dangerous situation; "there I was back on the hook"

parlous, perilous, precarious, touch-and-go

adj. fraught with danger; "dangerous waters"; "a parlous journey on stormy seas"; "a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat"; "the precarious life of an undersea diver"; "dangerous surgery followed by a touch-and-go recovery"

self-destructive, suicidal

adj. dangerous to yourself or your interests; "suicidal impulses"; "a suicidal corporate takeover strategy"; "a kamikaze pilot"

treacherous, unreliable

adj. dangerously unstable and unpredictable; "treacherous winding roads"; "an unreliable trestle"

abusive

adj. characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment; "abusive punishment"; "argued...that foster homes are abusive"

bad

adj. capable of harming; "bad air"; "smoking is bad for you"

deleterious, hurtful, injurious

adj. harmful to living things; "deleterious chemical additives"

calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrative, denigrating, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous

adj. (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign

cataclysmal, cataclysmic

adj. severely destructive; "cataclysmic nuclear war"; "a cataclysmic earthquake"

catastrophic, ruinous

adj. extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin; "a catastrophic depression"; "catastrophic illness"; "a ruinous course of action"

counterproductive

adj. tending to hinder the achievement of a goal

prejudicial, prejudicious

adj. tending to favor preconceived ideas; "the presence of discriminatory or prejudicial attitudes in the white population"

mischievous

adj. deliberately causing harm or damage; "mischievous rumors and falsehoods"

nocent

adj. having a tendency to cause harm

stabbing, wounding

adj. causing physical or especially psychological injury; "a stabbing remark"; "wounding and false charges of disloyalty"

healthful

adj. conducive to good health of body or mind; "a healthful climate"; "a healthful environment"; "healthful nutrition"; "healthful sleep"; "Dickens's relatively healthful exuberance"

salubrious

adj. favorable to health of mind or body; "not the most salubrious campsite"; "one of the less salubrious suburbs"

beneficial, good

adj. promoting or enhancing well-being; "an arms limitation agreement beneficial to all countries"; "the beneficial effects of a temperate climate"; "the experience was good for her"

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