Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Provoking gradual doubt or suspicion; suggestive.
- adjective Artfully contrived to gain favor or confidence; ingratiating.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to enter treacherously; insensibly winning favor or confidence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Winding, creeping, or flowing in, quietly or stealthily; suggesting; winning favor and confidence insensibly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
insinuate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective calculated to please or gain favor
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Examples
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They should either behave themselves or go ahead and have the violent revolution they keep insinuating is coming any day now.
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Or at least that's what they're insinuating from the spam in my in-box.
Gay Prejudice, Tolerance and Sundry marshallpayne1 2010
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Making a big deal about this is just a way for McCain's campaign to divert attention from the fact that in insinuating the supporting Obama was somehow supporting a terrorist agenda they were in fact enginging in "offensive" tactics that amounted to nothing but "a smear".
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Given the nasty elements of the Jew's character and his questionable motives in insinuating himself into the company of the GIs, Cohen argued, audience sympathies would naturally gravitate toward the anti-Semite. 76
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007
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Star Wars comes out May 19, coincidentally also the birthday of Nora Ephron, director of the movie Lucky Numbers, or as the Spanish insist on calling it, Combinacion Ganadora, a title insinuating the STD fireworks that could only be Travolta-Kudrow.
Archive 2005-03-01 Michelle Collins 2005
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Such evil creatures specialized, seemingly, in insinuating themselves into pious Protestant households, corrupting domestic morals, and winning over to Rome not only the family but the family fortune as well.
11/01/2003 - 12/01/2003 John 2003
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The dean of Chicago's medical school, Glenn D. Steele Jr., recently removed many faculty department heads and bluntly told Business Week that he plans to begin "insinuating the place ... with entrepreneurial people" — a clear statement that commercial acumen is becoming an important qualification for new faculty.
The Kept University 2000
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The dean of Chicago's medical school, Glenn D. Steele Jr., recently removed many faculty department heads and bluntly told Business Week that he plans to begin "insinuating the place ... with entrepreneurial people" — a clear statement that commercial acumen is becoming an important qualification for new faculty.
The Kept University 2000
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Earlier in October, Ana María Pizarro, a representative of MAM and one of the women's rights leaders being investigated in the "Rosita" case, reported receiving an anonymous telephone call insinuating that her 13-year-old son would be kidnapped.
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But the idea of insinuating himself into a noble household was the kind of plan that the craggy-faced sell-sword would not be able to anticipate.
Take A Thief Lackey, Mercedes 2001
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