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US
/ˌɪnˌsɪnjuˈeɪʃən/
]
[ UK /ɪnsˌɪnjuːˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /ɪnsˌɪnjuːˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
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the act of gaining acceptance or affection for yourself by persuasive and subtle blandishments
she refused to use insinuation in order to gain favor - an indirect (and usually malicious) implication
How To Use insinuation In A Sentence
- She refused to use insinuation in order to gain favor.
- It is against these projections and insinuations that Luzhin tries to devise a defence, the failure of which has tragic consequences.
- In a bid to warn the people/your community of what is bad, there seem to be a tacit insinuation of what "Ibadan" stands for. Self-Motivation, Personal Growth and Entrepreneurship Development on DeoluAkinyemi.com
- She rejected the insinuation that she was partly to blame.
- So, the case has completely collapsed, and Kay is left with nothing but vague and unproved insinuations even in the small matters to which he continues to cling for whatever odd reason.
- She has turned it into an increasingly ludicrous set of insinuations, non sequiturs and delusions.
- Watch as, in a glib aside, he patronises a culturally-hungry bevy of 50,000 people and, in the aftermath, ponder the unspoken insinuation that popular music is just a cacophony that only appeals to thickos.
- The Afrikaner think-tank, the Group of 63, on Sunday rejected what it called insinuations in newspapers that it had links with rightwing terror groups as "laughable, mean and slanderous". ANC Daily News Briefing
- This impertinent and malicious insinuation made some impression upon the bystanders, and furnished ample field for slander to asperse the morals of Trunnion, who was represented through the whole district as a monster of barbarity. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
- It also clearly illuminates where the line is, and why calling a miserly person a "Jew" is an insult (because the insinuation of miserliness is derogatory) whereas saying Asians like rice is not (because there's no derogatory insinuation). "We, in former times, constantly made jokes about different races."