Word Finder - insinuated

definition

To hint; to suggest tacitly (usually something bad) while avoiding a direct statement.

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She insinuated that her friends had betrayed her.

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To creep, wind, or flow into; to enter gently, slowly, or imperceptibly, as into crevices.

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(by extension) To ingratiate; to obtain access to or introduce something by subtle, cunning or artful means.

They insinuated themselves into the counsels of their ignorant masters, and though still sitting humbly at the feet of the barons, these upright and well-educated servitors were already dreaming of the great deeds they would do when.

The Eagles lost, and the media insinuated that Owens hurt his team's chances by insisting to play when he wasn't up to it.

There were not wanting those who insinuated that Galileo intended to depict the pope himself in the guise of the simpleton of the party; and the charge, though preposterous in itself, was supported by certain imprudences of expression, which Urban was not permitted to ignore.

It was insinuated that Nehemiah had his prophets to proclaim that Judah had again its own king; it was even suggested that he was intending to rebel against Persia!

Wade of Ohio, who had piloted the bill through the Senate, in issuing the so-called "WadeDavis Manifesto," which violently denounced President Lincoln for encroaching on the domain of Congress and insinuated that the presidential policy would leave slavery unimpaired in the reconstructed states.

In 1544 a relation of his own, named German Gardiner, whom he employed as his secretary, was put to death for treason in reference to the king's supremacy, and his enemies insinuated to the king that he himself was of his secretary's way of thinking.

Da'ud, who, having insinuated himself into the confidence of the caliph, especially by discovering the hiding places of certain Alids, was afterwards (in 778) made prime minister.

It has been insinuated both by contemporary and by later critics that being disappointed at his loss of popularity, and convinced of the impossibility of co-operating with his colleagues, he exaggerated his malady as a pretext for the inaction that was forced upon him by circumstances.

In particular she feuded with Vicki Gunvalson and Tamra Barney, who frequently insinuated that Gretchen was only with Jeff for his money and that she didn’t do anything but live off her wealthy boyfriend.