Insidious

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Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary:
spreading gradually or without being noticed, but causing serious harm
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MB:
Range of cuban missiles.
Cuban Missile Crisis - The insidious Soviet deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba.

Usage examples:

• The insidious disease plays a dirty trick on newborns, who seem healthy at first.
• Our insidious plot will go unnoticed.
  

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