Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which insinuates.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who, or that which, insinuates.

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  • noun One who insinuates.

Etymologies

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From Latin īnsinuātor.

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Examples

  • And isn't the Hillary of today becoming the same kind of guilt-by-association insinuator as the Richard Nixon she worked to impeach?

    Why Hillary Makes My Wife Scream 2008

  • And isn't the Hillary of today becoming the same kind of guilt-by-association insinuator as the Richard Nixon she worked to impeach?

    Tom Hayden: Why Hillary Makes My Wife Scream 2008

  • I have an idea for a short story that could develop...and I have an idea for a fascinating character based on a real person who I'd love to write into a book...a conflict-engineering virus of a person, a manipulator, insinuator, psychic bottom-feeder, a lonely monster whose elastic mind has stretched too far and is starting to unravel...

    NaNoWriMo Rachel 2006

  • I have an idea for a short story that could develop...and I have an idea for a fascinating character based on a real person who I'd love to write into a book...a conflict-engineering virus of a person, a manipulator, insinuator, psychic bottom-feeder, a lonely monster whose elastic mind has stretched too far and is starting to unravel...

    Archive 2006-11-01 Rachel 2006

  • This is all you desire at present, creeper on! insinuator!

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • I joined him, and, following Hyldy in a cloud of dust, the runner informed me between gasps that it was "along of burning his snout-raking for a bully-beef tin in the insinuator."

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 15, 1917 Various

  • Being of an easy and tractable disposition he soon found the fashions of the court, and obtained a general love and notice of the nobility; for he was no carry-tale, nor flattering insinuator to breed discord and dissension, but an honest, plain, downright [man], that would speak home without halting, and tell the truth of purpose to shame the devil -- so that his plainness, mixed with

    Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson

  • We are minus a chimney on this insinuator, but we are bettin 'on you and the reindeers just the same, to slip one over on us and come shinnin' down a cocoanut-tree with your pack.

    The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old Florence Partello Stuart

  • We will not enter into the plans of the artful insinuator made to enlist the sympathies of the unsuspecting Englishman, but we must ever feel sure that the cloven foot was well concealed until the last, for

    Four Months in a Sneak-Box 1869

  • I have for years, during the life of the insinuator, held such self-justification unworthy of me; now even decency demands silence.

    The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete George Eliot 1849

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