How To Use Innuendo In A Sentence

The article is pure surmise and innuendo.
The report was based on rumours, speculation, and innuendo.
( "Is linked to" is my favourite non-specific innuendo, followed by "associated with," but "ties" is effective as well.) Rights and Democracy: Board members strike back
He will be shown gratuitous sex and graphic violence, hidden behind innuendo and called a romantic comedy.
His book is full of disgusting lies, innuendo and smears. Times, Sunday Times

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Raw politics is making the arrival of boatpeople a divisive issue once more when it shouldn't be, and the Rudd government is as culpable as the Coalition when it comes to emotive catchcries and racist innuendo. Public Opinion
Because of our success, there has been rumour and innuendo about what we're supposed to be doing. Times, Sunday Times
She alleged that the article defamed her both personally and in her office as a magistrate and pleaded 3 false innuendos.
I laughed, thoroughly amused by his responses to my innuendos.
When the evidence was too clearly against Buckley, he would again revert to sexual innuendo, attacks on Myra, and finally Bobby Kennedy. R_urell: William F. Buckley: Father of Modern "Conservatism"
DYNAMITE: The term applies to TNT's bittersweet Men of a Certain Age, continuing its terrific second season, but not so much to the instantly tiresome new legal dramedy Franklin & Bash, which implodes in the belief that aggressive quirkiness, smarmy frat-boy sexual innuendo and a "suits are douches" philosophy will endear its Peter Pan protagonists to a wide audience. Matt's TV Week in Review
As John noted, both networks '"journalists" used the rallies as an occasion for childish sexual innuendoes -- in the case of MSNBC, the same obscene teabag "joke" was repeated 51 times in a 13-minute segment. Who Ordered the Petard?
Slapdash weeklies at the supermarket checkout line move by the millions circulating gossip, lies, innuendo and scandal.
Geez-Louise, guest -- "bent over forwards" is about as benign of a sexual innuendo as they come. Sound Politics: "Maria Cantwell And Ron Dotzauer: Making Music Since 1983"
There is plenty of Shakespeare's bawdy humour too and the sexual innuendoes come thick and fast.
The strongest of the film's musical numbers is the title song itself, which, though a tad short on his trademark lyrical innuendo, is nonetheless one of the most memorable melodies in the Formby songbook.
This album is filled with sexual innuendo and in-your-face lesbian sexuality.
These powers include the ability to convict suspects by innuendo, hearsay and rumour.
She found his relentless sexual innuendoes irritating.
She is the subject of ridicule, innuendo, and ostracism by her peers.
Meetings of her syndicate were bedlams of unrighteous innuendo all directed at her. THE DISPOSSESSED
No one can now doubt the urgent need to have hard, fact-based evidence to replace the rumour and innuendo so far being pushed. Times, Sunday Times
I was being asked to act on rumour, innuendo and gossip," Yates harrumphed. Michael White's diary
A cousinly interrogation peppered with snide innuendo. Earl of Durkness
It is possible to have a political conversation with someone who is the polar opposite of you without using ugly words and nasty innuendos.
The lavish praise is only possible because the book note is riddled with factual errors and misleading innuendo from start to finish.
Meanwhile, I await your examples of innuendo, ad hominem attacks, muckraking, uncharity and namecalling in my article.
Or for those who knew him to allow rumour and innuendo to spread? Times, Sunday Times
I find the only way to challenge the chauvinism, sexism, sexual innuendo and macho posturing there, is to be more rude and more graphic than the guys.
We totally reject the serious allegations and innuendos contained in the article.
I don't understand how people can be so cruel and unfeeling as to create havoc and distress in another person's life based on nothing but innuendos and rumors.
As a result of their greed my good name has been tarnished by deceit and innuendo. Times, Sunday Times
You do not mean those snitchy innuendos about your friends being freeloaders.
Balzac protested strenuously against the use of the word "gigantesque" in reference to his work; and of course it is susceptible of an unhandsome innuendo. The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix
There was a germ of a good idea here, but the finished product was a pretty flaccid affair, relying on saucy language and innuendo for its cheap laughs.
They are now printing unsubstantiated, unsourced innuendo and passing it off as noteworthy.
Finally, the amount of sexual innuendo in this film is quite interesting, considering the time in which it was made and the probable intended audience for a Zorro swashbuckler.
His book is full of disgusting lies, innuendo and smears. Times, Sunday Times
In Italy, where for years Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has regularly made sexual innuendoes and jokes, the premier's recent trial on charges of paying an underage girl for sex—charges he denies—has prompted women's groups to protest what they call the male establishment's demeaning attitude toward women. Across Europe, Views on Strauss-Kahn Diverge
But is not right and proper that superficial armchair judgments are now being arrived at based on leaks, gossip and innuendo. Times, Sunday Times
For this disinterested behaviour their reward has been a campaign of vilification and innuendo which has left both of them feeling angry and betrayed.
In your desire to blacken the reputation of Indonesia, you have resorted to the dissemination of falsehoods, misrepresentations and innuendos without any factual basis.
As far as I can tell, your argument, which you inist Mr. Sidgwick must accept if he wishes to avoid being bespattered with innuendo about Final Solutions, is as follows: if the phantasms I, John Roosevelt, conjure up are true representations of reality, then a negotiated settlement is impossible; therefore, a negotiated settlement is impossible. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
The Avengers, by comparison, was a wonky, low-budget piece of whimsy distinguished by Diana Rigg in tight leathers and the kind of sexual innuendo you only needed in an era of tighter censorship.
Naturally, this provoked a flood of filth and crude innuendo, which is hardly suitable material for a family site.
Guilt by innuendo is vile and only acclimates the public to gossip and intellectual laziness, which is poisonous to the public intellect and democracy. Lieberman: McCain's "Not Too Important" Comment Doesn't Matter Because He Served In Vietnam
Although we might find it embarrassing to make a typo that confused public and pubic, when the word pubes was influencing public back in classical times there wasn't any sexual innuendo. an excellent accompaniment to a housewarming bottle. the book about the words we use for our bodies Podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history
His reputation, he said, had been unfairly sullied by allegations, half-truths and innuendos.
His letter is a collection of false assertions, distortions, innuendos, contradictions, and misreadings.
I was going to slaughter James for his constant sexual innuendos.
In “Emoticons During Wartime,” a recent article in The New Yorker (December 10, 2007), Tom McNichol documents the usefulness of emoticons in communicating by visual innuendo. 2008 April
With one, her reputation for chastity and probity was at its height, while the other was embroiled in rumour and vicious innuendo. ELIZABETH AND MARY: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
Vologsky himself became the butt for smutty jokes and innuendoes.
Yan Jing Ke suspected Prince an excuse to delay repeatedly urged innuendo.
And Kay, who is a well-poisoner by profession, renders the issue utterly toxic with his continual accusations and innuendos. Archive 2009-09-01
Presumably without checking with their own intelligence experts or the White House, the three Democratic leaders went public with their incendiary innuendos.
There's always an element of sexual innuendo in our conversations.
The dialogue was all filth and innuendo.
This is a cautionary tale about what happens when you allow innuendo to sully your life.
But all we need to know is that yesterday he rose head and shoulders above the speculation and innuendo like the true leader he is. The Sun
There have been too many unpleasant innuendoes in this debate and not enough facts.
The dialogue is full of sexual innuendoes.
There's not much promise in the situation, and the dialogue has a few innuendos that are, by the standards of the time, gross.
Nor was there any good evidence for it, though plenty was manufactured by innuendo.
Don't spread gossip , rumor , innuendos , unkindness , malicious words or physical anger.
With one, her reputation for chastity and probity was at its height, while the other was embroiled in rumour and vicious innuendo. ELIZABETH AND MARY: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
The list of wrong stories, innuendos, and outright lies that have been printed and broadcast in the mainstream press is staggering.
No one can now doubt the urgent need to have hard, fact-based evidence to replace the rumour and innuendo so far being pushed. Times, Sunday Times
Where do these braindead, on-the-gov't payroll thieves, domestic terrorists, good for nothing spreaders of lies, fears, and innuendoes find the time AND money for this tripe, but can't seem to lift a finger to help anyone BUT themselves and their cronies? harold GOP group targets vulnerable Dems with 'Pelosi Index'
The song is full of sexual innuendo.
When sexual innuendos were actually made they appeared forced in order to appease my interests - they failed in this attempt.
But all we need to know is that yesterday he rose head and shoulders above the speculation and innuendo like the true leader he is. The Sun
You only need type the merest hint of innuendo into a search engine to come face to face with a porno advert.
As she shimmies in her sequined gown toward the spotlight to sing in her breathiest voice, “Happy Birthday, Mr. President,” her quirky sense of timing, sweet way with an innuendo, and her love affair with American celebrity and power are captured perfectly by the camera. All The Available Light
I don't understand how people can be so cruel and unfeeling as to create havoc and distress in another person's life based on nothing but innuendos and rumors.
For a brief moment he rose above the odious web of incitation, fabrication, innuendo, attack, smear and dirty tricks that is now the standard Republican political campaign operation mode. Archive 2008-11-01
He tends to tell off-color jokes, use a lot of sexual innuendo and pepper his conversations with inappropriate words.
‘I am making a sterling plea to members of the public to avoid speculation and innuendos until the investigations are completed and the report is published,’ he implored.
Over the last few days they have run a co-ordinated campaign of smears and innuendoes almost Goebbelsian in its mendacity against Carwyn Jones. Archive 2009-09-01
The 50-year-old reality TV judge amused the audience at the Excel Centre when he used innuendo to wind-up his co-star, who was being wooed by an auditionee. All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News
I just usually hav ... "minTphresh said:" sorry for the double post. antinous, if you get a chance .... anthony said: "GNU, I'm missing the white trash innuendo on this thread. Boing Boing
There's been rumour, innuendo and opinion. The Sun
The family is being torn apart by rumor and innuendo.
There will always be sex jokes to tell and innuendos to be made.
Replete with humor and plenty of risqué innuendos, the novels made Honey out as “the nerviest, curviest P.I. in Los Angeles -- or anywhere else for that matter,” to repeat one description. Archive 2008-07-01
They will throw out bloody red-meat innuendos and lies to the neo-con sharks to frenzily feed upon. OpEdNews - Diary: Who will win among the Republican Presidential contenders?
They had already beaten up and name-called other boys from his school, and subjected girls to obscene sexual innuendo.
There have been too many unpleasant innuendoes in this debate and not enough facts.
You do not mean those snitchy innuendos about your friends being freeloaders.
Anyway, if you're wondering what all the innuendos of the movie are trying to say or what the grand meaning you take from the flick is, here it is: Nothing.
So I called again and this time he tells me a whole set of things that had some nasty innuendos to them and there's a disgusting laugh in the background from yet another male.
Then the film melts into a strange political gloop, where significant facts are stickily mixed with half-arguments, innuendos and outright dishonesties.
Both movies are extremely long on mystery and innuendo.
“Rumors and innuendos, I’m told, in which your name figured prominently.” Eye of the Beholder
And, in their laddish way, they will make lewd and disparaging remarks and innuendos.
Innuendo is only ever really funny in a setting where direct indelicacy is inappropriate.
But is not right and proper that superficial armchair judgments are now being arrived at based on leaks, gossip and innuendo. Times, Sunday Times
What I haven't seen reported amid all the innuendoes is this important line in the fine print of the news release about the condoms: "Crown Jewels Condoms of Distinction are a novelty product and may not be suitable as a contraceptive or barrier against sexually transmitted diseases. Commemorative condoms?
You pick up hints of Benny Hill and Frankie Howard, with the unashamed innuendo that takes you to the brink of vulgarity but never drops over the edge.
Reality is biting these people in the ass, and they have no choice but to fight back with racist slurs, innuendo, McCarthyite claims and third-grade-level smirky jokes. Think Progress » GOP Rep. Nunes Excuses Racist, Homophobic Tea Partier Slurs As A Response To ‘Totalitarian Tactics’
I saw that under the mask of these half humorous innuendoes, this old seaman, as an insulated Quakerish Nantucketer, was full of his insular prejudices, and rather distrustful of all aliens, unless they hailed from Cape Cod or the Vineyard. Moby Dick; or the Whale
A lack of imagination on the part of the writer, the director and the actors results in slapstick comedy and innuendoes in dialogues.
Well, Andrew, if you think the 'rules of theoconservatism' are so loathesome, why are YOU so quick to adopt their over-heated rhetoric, the imputations of bad faith to anyone who dares disagree, and lapses into nudge-nudge wink-wink innuendo that rapidly becomes tiresome in teenage boys, let alone something pretending to be a serious examination of a serious candidate for the presidency? "I mean no disrespect."
As a result, she made innuendo and self-parody into a fine art, writing the scripts of five out of her nine Hollywood movies.
Clear as a bell, yet slithery with innuendo, it leaped like a deer, slipped like a snake.
She shows up when she wants, her book is nothing but a vindictive lashback at everyone she ever perceived 'hurt' her, she poses for pictures then calls the same pictures 'sexist' ... how long does the list of faux pas, bloopers, and innuendoes have to get before this person is revealed as the self-centered person she really is? Christie, McDonnell explain Palin's absence from campaign trail
I smiled at the memory of all his sexual innuendos and how they always managed to leave me either completely flustered or speechless.
Pushing 60 but still displaying the sensibility of a naughty schoolboy, Waters displays a real penchant for smutty innuendo and an ever growing catalogue of euphemisms.
Here's a look at the men of Big Brother 12, ranging from two married men, one college slacker, two guys who hope to lie and be underestimated and a gay college professor who compares himself to a sourball in a metaphor laced with sexual innuendo, intentional or not. BuddyTV
No longer was it just rumour and innuendo. Times, Sunday Times
Puh-leeze, Sam is the master of nasty backbites, what makes you think if he had someone on the line for 15 minutes he wouldn't use every bit of innuendo he could to make himslef look good. Is Mayor Creepy running a recall push poll already? (Jack Bog's Blog)
The mischief of a libel does not always consist in its grossness; on the contrary, when its bitterness is muffled in the garb of innuendo and latent allusion the malicious purpose is more galling for feelings to the wounded party.
As a result of their greed my good name has been tarnished by deceit and innuendo. Times, Sunday Times
She then cautioned against putting too much weight on what she called rumour and innuendo. Intellectual Property Watch
The new GNU/Linux and MacOS drivers for the network addressable "teledildonics" sex toy, the TranceVibrator, can be controlled via the finger daemon, "bringing generations of CS undergrad innuendo full circle. Boing Boing: March 26, 2006 - April 1, 2006 Archives
So much of the book is heavy with meaning and counter-meaning, innuendo and awful implication, that translation would be a challenge even without its freight of rich consonantal Manchester Yiddish – its mitzvahs, shiksas, farshimelts, meshuggeners and yisgadals. Guardian book club: Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson
They hit upon a winning formula which satisfied the peculiar British liking for lavatorial humour, men in drag, and innuendo, in the tradition of music hall and the saucy picture postcard.
3. The subtle and not so subtle innuendoes about the personal character and actions of Father Finegan: in particular in relation to the use of Church funds (vestments, no published accounts); his so called "martinet" charater (the issuing of "rules" regarding silence in Church). Archive 2009-02-01
Clear as a bell, yet slithery with innuendo, it leaped like a deer, slipped like a snake.
There have been too many innuendo-laced revelations about his remote marriage, and a home in Sri Lanka, managed by a houseboy.
In your desire to blacken the reputation of this country, you have resorted to the dissemination of falsehoods, misrepresentations and innuendos without any factual basis.
Please explain as your secrecy and silence is creating a crescendo of innuendo.
Over the years, these keen listeners have developed an ear for every political innuendo and insinuation.
It involves many techniques of expression such as innuendo, pun, irony, euphony, allegory, hyperbole, and oblique references, etc.
They have been ripe for the pickings of a media that for the past two decades has successfully parlayed gossip, innuendo, rumor, half-truths and outright lies into a hugely profitable growth industry. Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Dumping on The Obamas
The innuendo was that female rule, if insufficiently ‘godly’, was not sacral monarchy, but was tantamount to minority or acephalous rule.
But if we leave that innuendo aside, if we adopt the sane reflection that "gigantesque" does not exceed "gigantic," or assert as constant failure of greatness, but only indicates that the magnifying process is carried on with a certain indiscriminateness, we shall find none, I think, which so thoroughly well describes him. The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix
So a lot of the sexual innuendo or "crushes" or drinking or smoking or Japanese orientated habits get changed, like when ghibli again had Kiki's delivery service they felt that a small child shouldn't be drinking Coffee so they changed it to Cocoa. Up and down, crash and burn: nightcare to job hunt to darkness
His writing is full of sexual innuendoes.
Their story is unverifiable innuendo, and chasing that hare merely adds more load on the cops - who, in case you've forgotten, are trying to prevent the next slaughter.
Mr Hamilton has also reportedly made passes and sexual innuendoes towards two boys ages 13 and D Antonio
There have been too many unpleasant innuendoes in this debate and not enough facts.
The song is full of sexual innuendo.
But times are fresh and proof is mostly based on wild innuendo and moral snobbery in these dawn days of post-America.
Thus he cheerfully permitted his supporters to blacken his political opponents' reputations with false accusations and innuendo, but refused to use information about their private lives that would have destroyed them.
Posters for a brand of alcohol were criticised by the advertising watchdog today for containing sexual innuendo.
And even though there was a lack of detail, simple innuendos suggested that one was female and the other male.
There's been rumour, innuendo and opinion. The Sun
Meetings of her syndicate were bedlams of unrighteous innuendo all directed at her. THE DISPOSSESSED
Or for those who knew him to allow rumour and innuendo to spread? Times, Sunday Times
What occurs is a meal from hell comprising of inedible food, accompanied by a cascade of bitchery and innuendo from the hostess, and ill-concealed contempt and bad manners from the guests.
Now he's being pilloried for the "misjudgment" of commenting on the innuendoes facing him, which is a bit like slapping someone for a while and then deriding them for flinching. First Big Brother, now Little Brother, and both are deadly
If they are making ‎ such a dastardly accusation, I personally shall be in the fore of the attack against such a ‎ glabrous innuendo (I'm not sure if that word is right here, but it sounded nice)! A Frisson of Freedom
Dress conduct, sexual innuendos at the workplace and other such issues are raised in the book.
No longer was it just rumour and innuendo. Times, Sunday Times
She tried to ignore his coarse jokes and crude innuendoes -- he was obviously drunk.
We put the US on notice that we expect full proof, that we will not tolerate accusation by innuendo or slur.
As a group, we are committed to competing drug-free, and we are extremely disappointed and angry with ill-informed recent comments and innuendo which have cast a slur on our sport, and us as individuals.
Jones on the new Two and a Half Men 4. Men is notorious for its racy jokes and sexual innuendoes, but Jones has never asked his castmates or producers to explain the adult humor to him — even if they wanted to. 5 Things You Don't Know About Two and a Half Men's Angus T. Jones
But despite a press barrage of innuendo and insinuations, he has not been charged with, let alone found guilty of, any crime.
At this point in the political game, they are masters of lies, innuendoes, do nothings, name calling, incites of all varieties, but my favorite "The Party Of NO". Graham: Dems engaging in 'seedy Chicago politics'
She shows up when she wants, her book is nothing but a vindictive lashback at everyone she ever perceived 'hurt' her, she poses for pictures then calls the same pictures 'sexist' ... how long does the list of faux pas, bloopers, and innuendoes have to get before this person is revealed as the self-centered person she really is? Christie, McDonnell explain Palin's absence from campaign trail
destructiveness" which characterises the Badawi: he is "keen for satire as a thirsty man for water:" and half his poetry seems to consist of foul innuendo, of lampoons, and of gross personal abuse. Arabian nights. English
There's always an element of sexual innuendo in our conversations.
Sometimes the information is conveyed through secret circulars; but more commonly the deed is consummated by professed abortionists, who advertise themselves as such through innuendo, or through gaining this kind of repute by the frequent commission of the act. Plain Facts for Old and Young
The Grimms, who were eager to avoid sexual innuendo in their revisions, might have preferred rampion to parsley on account of the herbs 'different popular uses and sought to bury a different story, one uncomfortably close to daily life. Rapunzel, Parsley & Pregnancy
The manic dialogue is crisp and clear so you'll catch every bold-faced joke and subtle innuendo.
Thomas and Rogers had hit upon a winning formula which satisfied the peculiar British liking for lavatorial humour, men in drag, and innuendo, in the tradition of music hall and the saucy picture postcard.
ROWLANDS: Basically, that, as Carlos said, they're not going to comment to these what they call rumor, innuendos or sourced reporting. CNN Transcript Jul 27, 2009
Problems occurred, however, when the behavior was unwelcome by staff members or if the behaviors included lewd remarks or sexual innuendos.
If he is a spy, they will engage in witty, innuendo-filled conversation, retire to his cabana, and make love. Dear Slimbolala: Shooting from the Hip
`Do you cops learn innuendo during your probationary year or is it a prerequisite of joining? CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
Anybody else notice the subliminal bolstering of New Labour in a raft of recent BBC programmes - even Empire of the Seas had lefty innuendo I noticed. teledu Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
Because of our success, there has been rumour and innuendo about what we're supposed to be doing. Times, Sunday Times

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