What does insinuendo mean?
Insinuendo means insinuation containing innuendo.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
insinuation containing innuendo.
Truly a man may wish, “O that mine enemy would let me write his Preface! Could I not damn with faint praise and stab with sharp insinuendo?” – to use the labor-saving and much-needed word thoughtlessly invented by the sable legislator of South Carolina.
It’s sort of an insinuendo, as Matt King says, that your mind could stand a good deal of improving and not hurt it any.
"I don't have it," says Leon. "It was done away with because of the negative insinuendo."
The most quoted malamanteau is George W. Bush’s “I misunderestimated”. Others that have evoked smirks have been “miscommunicado” (from “miscommunicate” and “incommunicado”), “insinuendo” (from “innuendo” and “insinuation”), and “squirmish” (“squirm” and “skirmish”).
Use insinuendo when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Insinuendo means insinuation containing innuendo.
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Truly a man may wish, “O that mine enemy would let me write his Preface! Could I not damn with faint praise and stab with sharp insinuendo?” – to use the labor-saving and much-needed word thoughtlessly invented by the sable legislator of South Carolina.
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