Sentence examples for insidious purpose from inspiring English sources

Some creators of social apps say they have constructed their services to make people keep coming back for more, but not for any insidious purpose.

One day, says Peter Tatchell, Britain's pre-eminent gay activist, "the exclusive and rigid sexualities of straight and gay will be supplanted by a more polymorphous and fluid sexuality .Like Mr Harris, radical activists believe that consumerism is diluting gay identity; unlike him, some of them believe that this is its deliberate and insidious purpose.

But in the current context, putting a spotlight on them serves an insidious purpose: It searches for some sort of justification for the corporate violence and police brutality we all witnessed.

It was also "open" in that the relationship allowed Verizon and the other carriers to begin taking advantage of Android and use it for their own, insidious purposes.

The spokesman charged that "dishonest forces and intelligence agents of South Korea, displeased with the North-South reconciliation, have long employed every base means to take such border transgressions for an insidious political purpose".

Why would Esther bother to get into Ivy League Schools under an assumed identity, when she could have used her considerable talents for more lucrative -- or insidious -- purposes is a question perplexing police.

One slam on him used to be that he was derivative, aping other voices or styles, or else mercenary, a soulless craftsman exploiting his technical and melodic agility to churn out insidious confections for the purpose of making money.

We face a hostile ideology -- global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose, and insidious in method.

The definitions are fuzzy, but the programs fall under three broad categories: "adware," which serves pop-up ads and banners, including some for pornography; true "spyware, " which monitors Web wanderings for marketing purposes; and more insidious "snoopware," which can track everything users do on their computers, whether or not they are online.

She also has some of the juicier lines (like, "There is nothing more insidious than a person with a higher purpose and a lawyer").

"Human trafficking for the purposes of exploitation is an insidious and complex crime and much of the exploitation is hidden from view".