Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Provoking gradual doubt or suspicion; suggestive: insinuating remarks.
- adj. Artfully contrived to gain favor or confidence; ingratiating.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Tending to enter treacherously; insensibly winning favor or confidence.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of insinuate.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Winding, creeping, or flowing in, quietly or stealthily; suggesting; winning favor and confidence insensibly.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. calculated to please or gain favor
Examples
“They should either behave themselves or go ahead and have the violent revolution they keep insinuating is coming any day now.”
“Or at least that's what they're insinuating from the spam in my in-box.”
“Making a big deal about this is just a way for McCain's campaign to divert attention from the fact that in insinuating the supporting Obama was somehow supporting a terrorist agenda they were in fact enginging in "offensive" tactics that amounted to nothing but "a smear".”
“Given the nasty elements of the Jew's character and his questionable motives in insinuating himself into the company of the GIs, Cohen argued, audience sympathies would naturally gravitate toward the anti-Semite. 76”
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“Star Wars comes out May 19, coincidentally also the birthday of Nora Ephron, director of the movie Lucky Numbers, or as the Spanish insist on calling it, Combinacion Ganadora, a title insinuating the STD fireworks that could only be Travolta-Kudrow.”
“Such evil creatures specialized, seemingly, in insinuating themselves into pious Protestant households, corrupting domestic morals, and winning over to Rome not only the family but the family fortune as well.”
“The dean of Chicago's medical school, Glenn D. Steele Jr., recently removed many faculty department heads and bluntly told Business Week that he plans to begin "insinuating the place ... with entrepreneurial people" — a clear statement that commercial acumen is becoming an important qualification for new faculty.”
“Earlier in October, Ana María Pizarro, a representative of MAM and one of the women's rights leaders being investigated in the "Rosita" case, reported receiving an anonymous telephone call insinuating that her 13-year-old son would be kidnapped.”
“But the idea of insinuating himself into a noble household was the kind of plan that the craggy-faced sell-sword would not be able to anticipate.”
“Remember this is the state that knocked John McCain out of the 2000 race thanks to robocalls insinuating that his adopted”
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