as in innuendo
a slyly or subtly derogatory remark
the insinuation that there were considerations other than love for the actor having such a high-profile wedding
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Recent Examples of insinuation
But Johnson brushed off the insinuation that his administration could have better prepared for this outcome.
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Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2025
The empty hallways and classrooms are made menacing and claustrophobic as insinuations, assumptions, and accusations fly.
—Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2025
Throughout the interview, Ye made provocative insinuations about Jews and money and went on unprovoked tangents.
—Aja Romano, Vox, 7 Feb. 2025
But Kennedy has a long, undistinguished record of relying on the work of charlatans to make wild charges, of not correcting the record when he is proven wrong, and then going to find more bad evidence to continue to make the same insinuations.
—The Editors, National Review, 31 Jan. 2025
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Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2025
The empty hallways and classrooms are made menacing and claustrophobic as insinuations, assumptions, and accusations fly.
—Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2025
Throughout the interview, Ye made provocative insinuations about Jews and money and went on unprovoked tangents.
—Aja Romano, Vox, 7 Feb. 2025
But Kennedy has a long, undistinguished record of relying on the work of charlatans to make wild charges, of not correcting the record when he is proven wrong, and then going to find more bad evidence to continue to make the same insinuations.
—The Editors, National Review, 31 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for insinuation
Noun
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There are still rooms and contexts in which Germans — and now the head coach of the English national football team — are subject to infantile innuendo.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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But that hasn’t stopped the finger-pointing, the blame games, the innuendo.—
Brandon Kochkodin,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
Noun
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By reducing noise and missing values, AI simplifies data imputation, categorization and clustering, improving data accessibility.—
Sandeep Shilawat,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
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Multiple imputation became the go-to technique in medicine.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
2 Oct. 2024
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That suggestion is fundamentally incompatible with the basic premise of equal justice under the law.—
Aaron Katersky,
ABC News,
2 Apr. 2025
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There were some suggestions that Musk may not leave the Administration entirely, but rather downgrade his public involvement.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
2 Apr. 2025
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“Insinuation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insinuation. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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