Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Insinuating; insinuative.

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

  • adjective Insinuative.

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  • adjective insinuative

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Examples

  • And even if the horrible, insinuatory language of these past few weeks is left behind, voters should never forget that they tried to get away with it.

    McCain and Palin are playing with fire 2008

  • But apart from the vast superiority of the Greek in depth and passion and dramatic invention, in Voltaire this philosophizing is very much more indirect, insinuatory, and furtive, than in the marked sententiousness of Euripides.

    Voltaire 2007

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