Sekirov Dictionary

insinuate

/ɪnˈsɪnjueɪt/

verb 3
adjective 1
forms 6

verb3

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To hint; to suggest tacitly (usually something bad) while avoiding a direct statement.
- She insinuated that her friends had betrayed her.
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(rare) To creep, wind, or flow into; to enter gently, slowly, or imperceptibly, as into crevices.
- Water will insinuate itself into Flints through certain imperceptible Cracks — 1728
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(figurative) To ingratiate; to obtain access to or introduce something by subtle, cunning or artful means.
- All the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment. — 1689

adjective1

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(no longer used) Insinuated.
- The great mistery of Christes passyon […] lyttle and lyttle at sundry seasons to bee sygnifyed and insinuate conueniently to man. — 1534

forms

insinuated · insinuating · insinuates · insinuateth · more insinuate · most insinuate

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