Insinuate

Quick meaning: Insinuate is a verb meaning To hint; to suggest tacitly (usually something bad) while avoiding a direct statement.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (figurative, by extension) To ingratiate; to obtain access to or introduce something by subtle, cunning or artful means.
2. (as a participle) Insinuated.
3. (rare) To creep, wind, or flow into; to enter gently, slowly, or imperceptibly, as into crevices.

Example Sentences

She insinuated that her friends had betrayed her.

And wilt thou inſinuate what I am? and praiſe me? And ſay I am a Noble Fellow?

Some speakers allow the sound of r to insinuate itself between the a and s of wash

Horace laughs to shame all follies and insinuates virtue, rather by familiar examples than by the severity of precepts.

Word Forms

• insinuates
• insinuating
• insinuated

Synonyms for insinuate

Depending on context, synonyms include advert, allude, hint, imply, indicate, inkle.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include adumbrate, intimate, suggest, imply, infer, outline.

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