insinuation

insinuation
insinuation, innuendo mean covert suggestion or a covert allusion to something.
Insinuation applies chiefly to a remark, comment, or question which conveys or seems to convey a hint or implication, often one that is discreditable to the person at whom it is aimed
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by tacit agreement they ignored the remarks and insinuations of their acquaintances— D. H. Lawrence

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we reject any insinuation that one race or another, one people or another is in any sense inferior or expendable— Eisenhower

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Innuendo more often applies to the method of covert suggestion than does insinuation, and when it applies to a definite instance, it is referable to meaningful smiles, glances, inflections, as well as to remarks; in both cases the term definitely implies a suggestion of something that is injurious to the reputation of the person concerned
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I prefer the most disagreeable certainties to hints and innuendosByron

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in this play Middleton shows his interest ... in innuendo and double meanings— T. S. Eliot

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"He—eventually—married her." There were volumes of innuendo in the way the eventually was spaced, and each syllable given its due stress— Wharton

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he learned by chance remarks overheard, from innuendo, a dropped word here and there, a sly, meaningful snicker— Harold Sinclair

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Analogous words: hinting or hint, implying or implication, suggestion, intimation (see corresponding verbs at SUGGEST): *animadversion, aspersion, reflection: imputation, ascription (see corresponding verbs as ASCRIBE): allusion (see corresponding verb at REFER)

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  • insinuation — [ ɛ̃sinɥasjɔ̃ ] n. f. • 1319; lat. insinuatio 1 ♦ Anc. Dr. Inscription d un acte sur un registre; insertion. Insinuation d un testament, d un contrat. 2 ♦ (XVIIe) Vx Action de s insinuer (1o), de pénétrer. « L insinuation de l aliment dans les… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

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  • Insinuation — (v. lat.), 1) die Behändigung richterlicher Decrete, Zufertigungen od. Ladungen an die Betheiligten. Die I. muß in der Regel demjenigen, an den sie gerichtet ist, selbst, od. an dessen Bevollmächtigten geschehen, u. nur dann, wenn er nicht… …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Insinuation — (lat.), Einschmeichelung, Einflüsterung; in der Rechtssprache soviel wie Zustellung (s. d.). Insinuationsdokument, Ein oder Behändigungsschein; Insinuationsmandatar, der von einer auswärtigen Partei zur Empfangnahme von amtlichen Zustellungen… …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Insinuation — (lat.), Einschmeichelung; geheime listige Mitteilung einer Nachricht, Einflüsterung einer Meinung etc. zu übeln oder selbstischen Zwecken; Einreichung einer Schrift bei einer Behörde; insbes. Einhändigung einer gerichtlichen Zufertigung oder… …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • Insinuation — Insinuation, lat. deutsch, amtliches Wissenlassen, Einhändigung von Verfügungen u.s.w., um namentlich den Beweis für den Empfang der Mittheilung zu sichern; insinuiren, einhändigen. I. wird in der gewöhnlichen Sprache auch in der Bedeutung von… …   Herders Conversations-Lexikon

  • insinuation — I noun allusion, aspersion, clue, hint, implication, indirect allusion, indirect comment, indirect implication, inference, innuendo, intimation, oblique hint, reference, significatio, suggestion, veiled observation, veiled remark II index… …   Law dictionary

  • insinuation — 1520s, from L. insinuationem (nom. insinuatio) entrance through a narrow way; an ingratiating oneself, noun of action from pp. stem of insinuare (see INSINUATE (Cf. insinuate)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • insinuation — ► NOUN ▪ an unpleasant hint or suggestion …   English terms dictionary

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